In Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan draws on cognitive and affective science as well as literary works and personal experience. The book provides a clear, systematic account of personal identity that is theoretically strong, but also unique and engaging.
American Literature and American Identity uses techniques of cognitive and affective... Læs mere
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book... Læs mere
Literature provides us with insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. Hogan's study explores emotions in the... Læs mere
This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations. Patrick Colm... Læs mere
Hogan argues that the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns determined by cross-culturally... Læs mere
What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent work in cognitive science, affective science, and social psychology, along with Marxism and related forms of analysis.
In an original study, Patrick Colm Hogan brings the insights of global comparative literature to bear on central issues... Læs mere