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Interfacing Literary and Cultural Studies with the Cognitive Sciences, or: Re-cognizing Henry James

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Friday, September 16, 2016
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Dr. Sabine Sielke
Guest Speaker Series

The paper evolves from a book project that explores how literary and cultural analysis and cognition research can be mutually productive. Focusing on three central terms of cultural analysis (memory, mediation, seriality) and three authors (Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Gertrude Stein), my study identifies touch points between cultural studies and the cognitive sciences and assesses their potential impact on our sense of cultural practice. Portraiture, close-up, and face recognition, I show in my talk, constitute one such contact point. As we interface the art of portraiture in James's fiction with the faculty of face recognition and examine remediations of James in recent cultural practices, ranging from cinematic adaptations of his fiction to fictional texts that feature James, it becomes evident how the re-cognition of another (human) figure informs our sense of ourselves as (inter-)subjects.

Type: LECTURE/TALK