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  • The Death of the Goddess, A Poem in Twelve Cantos

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    THE DEATH OF THE GODDESS is an epic, powerful narrative poem that poignantly explores themes of love, personal loss, and grief. Drawing inspiration from Buddhism, Indian philosophy, and Patrick Colm Hogan's interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita, the story revolves around two lovers who challenge unjust social structures, ultimately facing separation and death as a consequence of their defiance. In ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colonialism and Literature

    An Affective Narratology

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    In earlier work Patrick Colm Hogan argued that a few story genres—heroic, romantic, sacrificial, and others—recur prominently across separate literary traditions. These structures recur because they derive from important emotion-motivation systems governing human social interaction, such as group pride and shame.In Colonialism and Literature Hogan extends this work to argue that these genres play ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • American Literature and American Identity

    A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    Series series Narrative Theory and Culture
    In recent years, cognitive and affective science have become increasingly important for interpretation and explanation in the social sciences and humanities. However, little of this work has addressed American literature, and virtually none has treated national identity formation in influential works since the Civil War. In this book, Hogan develops his earlier cognitive and affective analyses of ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • American Literature and American Identity

    A Cognitive Cultural Study From the Revolution Through the Civil War

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    American Literature and American Identity addresses the crucial issue of identity formation, especially national identity, in influential works of American literature. Patrick Colm Hogan uses techniques of cognitive and affective science to examine the complex and often highly ambivalent treatment of American identity in works by Melville, Cooper, Sedgwick, Apess, Stowe, Jacobs, Douglass, ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • What is Colonialism?

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent work in cognitive science, affective science, and social psychology, along with Marxism and related forms of analysis.Hogan begins with some fundamental conceptual distinctions, such as the degree to which a group shares beliefs, dispositions, and skills versus the ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • The Death of the Goddess

    A Poem in Twelve Cantos

    by Patrick Colm Hogan, Rachel Fell McDermott ...
    THE DEATH OF THE GODDESS is an epic, narrative poem that is a moving account of affection, personal loss, and grief. Inspired by Buddhism, Indic thought and Hogan’s reading of the Bhagavad Gita, the central figures are two lovers who refuse to accept unjust social hierarchies and suffer separation and death for that choice. In this groundbreaking narrative, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out to re ... Read more

    $8.86 CAD

  • Literature and Moral Feeling

    A Cognitive Poetics of Ethics, Narrative, and Empathy

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    Series series Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
    An influential body of recent work on moral psychology has stressed the interconnections among ethics, narrative, and empathy. Yet as Patrick Colm Hogan argues, this work is so vague in its use of the term 'narrative' as to be almost substanceless, and this vagueness is in large part due to the neglect of literary study. Extending his previous work on universal story structures, Hogan argues that ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts

    A Guide for Humanists

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    The rise cognitive science has been one of the most important intellectual developments of recent years, stimulating new approaches to everything from philosophy to film studies. This is an introduction to what cognitive science has to offer the humanities and particularly the study of literature. Hogan suggests how the human brain works and makes us feel in response to literature. He walks the ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Beauty and Sublimity

    A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to longstanding questions about beauty and sublimity. Hogan begins by distinguishing what we respond to as beautiful from what we count socially as beautiful. He goes on to examine the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Culture of Conformism

    Understanding Social Consent

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    “[Hogan’s] goal is not merely to explain but to provide tools of understanding that will be of practical value to those who struggle for justice and freedom. Drawing from an impressive array of sources, his valuable study advances both ends considerably, no mean accomplishment.”—Noam ChomskyIn this wide-ranging and informative work, Patrick Colm Hogan draws on cognitive science, psychoanalysis, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Style in Narrative

    Aspects of an Affective-Cognitive Stylistics

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    Series series Cognition and Poetics
    Literary style is something many people talk about, but few could define. Yet it is crucial for our response to narrative art. Style can facilitate or obscure the events of a story or the motivations of a character, enhance the aesthetic appeal of a narrative or complicate its emotional impact, and even inflect the political or ethical implications of a work. It is precisely this complex operation ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • Personal Identity and Literature

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    In Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan examines what makes an individual a particular, unique self. He draws on cognitive and affective science as well as literary works - from Walt Whitman and Frederick Douglass to Dorothy Richardson, Alice Munro, and J. M. Coetzee. His scholarly analyses are also intertwined with more personal reflections, on for example his mother’s memory loss. The result ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD