Read about new directions in literature: literary scholars and cognitive scientists are using "snapshots of the brain" to explore the mechanics of reading. See the link below to read about what we've been exploring in the course: mental states, levels of reading in complex literary texts, free indirect style-merging character's and narrator's thoughts (as in Woolf and Joyce). They say the research is like "mapping wonderland."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/books/01lit.html?hpw
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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