ABSTRACT
This unique book on neurocognitive interpretations of Australian literature covers a wide range of analyses by discussing Australian Literary Studies, Aboriginal literary texts, women writers, ethnic writing, bestsellers, neurodivergence fiction, emerging as well as high- profile writers, literary hoaxes and controversies, book culture, and LGBTIQA+ authors, to name a few. It eclectically brings together a wide gamut of cognitive concepts and literary genres at the intersection of Australian literary studies and cognitive literary studies in the first single-author volume of its kind. It takes Australian Literary Studies into the age of neuroawareness and provides new pathways in contemporary criticism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|31 pages
Cognition and Literary Culture
chapter 2|14 pages
Do Judge a Book by Its Cover!
part II|31 pages
Cognition and the Mind
chapter 3|14 pages
Gazing Inward and Outward
chapter 4|15 pages
Australian High-Functioning ASD Fiction in the Age of Neurodiversity
part III|28 pages
Cognition and the Body
chapter 5|14 pages
The Erotics of Writing and Reading Australian Fiction
chapter 6|12 pages
Brains in Pain and Coping Bodies
part IV|35 pages
Cognition and Emotions