2021 Stories and the Brain: Neuroscience, Narrative, and Narrative Theory
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Stories and the Brain: Neuroscience, Narrative, and Narrative Theory
Date
January 13, 2021
Speaker
Paul Armstrong (Brown University)
Moderator
Shawn Normandin (Sungkyunkwan University)
This lecture integrates concepts from neurobiology and phenomenology in order to explain the relations between language, cognition, and narrative. Professor Armstrong’s neurobiological model of narrative explains how stories arise from and set in motion fundamental neuronal and cortical processes, and he speaks of how the aims and methods of narrative theory should be aligned with what we know about language and the brain.
About the Speaker
Paul B. Armstrong is professor of English at Brown University. His research focuses on phenomenological theories of reading and narrative and their intersection with cognitive science. His most recent books are Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) and How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013). His other books include Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form (Cornell UP, 2005), Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation (U of North Carolina P, 1990), The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford (Cornell UP, 1987), and The Phenomenology of Henry James (U of North Carolina P, 1983). He is also the editor of Norton Critical Editions of Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (4th Edition, 2006; 5th Edition, 2017) and E. M. Forster’s novels A Passage to India (2021) and Howards End (1998).