LIT148 CM - Literature and the Brain

Reading and writing literature has always been predicated upon beliefs and assumptions about how literature plays with the human mind. With recent developments in neuroscience and experimental psychology, scholars now have unprecedented access into the human brain, with many questions yet to be answered about how its operations yield “the mind.” How should emerging research in cognitive and neuroscience inform our understanding of the nature and function of literary texts? In the process, we return to issues that have energized writers and theorists from Utpaladeva and Mammatta to Flaubert and Wordsworth.

Offered: Once per year

Credit: 1

Course Number: LIT 148 CM