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Cognition, Narrative, and the Psychology of Love
The recent proliferation of non-relativistic accounts of emotion poses
a particularly delicate challenge to constructivist interpretations of
culture. At the same time, an increasingly multicultural focus of literary
studies is beginning to render suspect the notion that narrative patterns
of emotion are provincial European inventions. Where C.S. Lewis already
in 1936 argued that romantic love was a poetical innovation of the French
troubadours of the late Middle Ages, we propose to examine how literary
representations and genres draw on a psychology of love that appears to
recur across cultural divides and time periods. The four papers develop
models of the liminal orders that occupy the often ignored space between
a cognitive affirmation of universals and a constructivist insistence on
local detail. It is in this space, we propose, that fruitful cognitive
literary criticism can be located.
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| 1. | Emotion Prototypes and the Lyric: Romance, Devotionalism, and Censored Sexualities |
Patrick
Colm Hogan
U Connecticut, Storrs |
| 2. | Emotion, Cognition, and Transcendence in Lallashevri's Poetry | Lalita Pandit
U Wisconsin, La Crosse |
| 3. | Caught Unawares by
Love: Restoration Portrayals of the Erotic Unconscious |
Francis Steen U California, Santa Barbara |
| 4. | Filming Great Expectations:
Hollywood's Anthropology of Love |
Lisa Zunshine
U California, Santa Barbara |
| Respondent | Jim Swan |
© 1999 Francis
F. Steen, Communication Studies, University of California, Los Angeles