Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction: the prospects of literary cognitivism
JOHN GIBSON

Part I
Knowledge through literary fiction

Learning from literature
PETER LAMARQUE

Literary realism, recognition and the communication of knowledge
NOËL CARROLL

The laboratory of the mind
CATHERINE Z. ELGIN

“How Could you?”: deeper understanding through fiction
SUSAN FEAGIN

Aharon Appelfeld and the problem of Holocaust fiction
BERNARD HARRISON

The return of the repressed: caring about literature and its themes
LUCA POCCI

Lewis Carroll: fugitive from reality?
A. D. NUTALL

Part II
Narrating worlds and selves

Philosophy as/and/of literature
ARTHUR C. DANTO

The ends of narrative
RICHARD ELDRIDGE

Narrative Catharsis
GARRY L. HAGBERG

Postmodern narratives of the past: Simon Schama
LUBOMÍR DOLEŽEL

En Abyme: internal models and cognitive mapping
BRIAN MCHALE

Traveling stories: knowledge, activism, and the humanities
LINDA HUTCHEON

Part III
The poetic, the dramatic, and the real

Poetry and Cognition
EILEEN JOHN

Why read literature? The cognitive function of form
WOLFGANG HUEMER

“The way light at the edge of a beach in autumn is learned”: literature as learning
FRANK B. FARRELL

Wonder in The Winter’s Tale: a cautionary account of epistemic criticism
CHARLES ALTIERI

Part IV
Imagination, objectivity, and culture

Legends and myths
KENDALL L. WALTON

Literature and make-believe
JOSEPH MARGOLIS

Art and the view from nowhere
ALEX BURRI

Culture: a recursive process
WOLFGANG ISER

Index

Reviewed in:

Il sole 24 ore, 17. 2. 2008
by Anna Li Vigni

Nordic Journal of Philosophy 9 (2008)
by Jukka Mikkonen

Estudios Filosoficos 57/164 (2008), pp. 182–4, by Sixto J. Castro

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2009),
by Allen Speight

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