https://hcommons.org/members/zunshine/activity/ Activity feed for Lisa Zunshine. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:52:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 df074ce123cbf73b846df7790a1a461d https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858170/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:21:45 -0400 Cognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]

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]]> 0 51a83109dec8e38bfa5f9c18b3e3e073 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857511/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:29:49 -0400 This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]

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]]> 0 7f69fd7d92cfe8b1a0a99237d6e17384 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856309/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:27:12 -0400 Zunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]

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]]> 0 8b1f13a72e9ccb4b73f5987928444ac6 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1777282/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:28:07 -0400 An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.

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]]> 0 99079ca54cfb24eda76325cf6f72d8aa https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/thank-you-for-terrific-attendance/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:14:19 -0500 Thank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.

]]> 9575fe2266194edee1ea88417e9c0137 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/session-645-life-writing-and-cognition-sunday/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:39:06 -0500 Please join us for "Life-Writing and Cognition" (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.

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]]> 15ea358f74fe165a0a215281a5b39403 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1702149/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 03:56:44 -0400 This article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]

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]]> 0 f94e796178be67fbce399e5768cf6b57 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1688879/ Thu, 28 May 2020 04:06:44 -0400 a bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies

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]]> 0 bf0ece7d7c95725cd17b7226effe0fa7 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1686507/ Thu, 07 May 2020 03:59:05 -0400 Would you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger s…[Read more]

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]]> 0 e8c6b3bbb26a347397f28a45f02b667b https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1686505/ Thu, 07 May 2020 03:53:02 -0400 Would you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger s…[Read more]

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]]> 0 f9ff9a6479089e6d9dee466fe6f7c416 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1686503/ Thu, 07 May 2020 03:48:45 -0400 Would you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger s…[Read more]

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]]> 0 7685dde3dc2a2fa4b01f1c9b8d0d1b28 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631693/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:44:19 -0500 This study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.

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