The Literary Designer Environments of Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetics

2019 ◽  
pp. 187-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Kukkonen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Cognitive Niche ◽  
Scaffolded Learning

This chapter revisits earlier accounts of distributed cognition in cultural environments and practices. It extends the notion of designer environment (i.e. spatial and procedural arrangements that amplify and scaffold cognition) beyond the usual focus on problem-solving and the task at hand. For outlining the complex capacities that come into play with the linguistic, cultural and literary contexts of literary designer environment, it draws on the critical and literary writings developed by Jesuits in eighteenth-century France. In particular, these literary designer environments enable fictional extensions of thought where immersive experience and abstract reflection can be combined. The article discusses individual literary texts and the larger intertextual net of literature in terms of the designer environment and suggests to broaden the perspectives from distributed cognition, the cognitive niche and scaffolded learning to include these.

Barthold Heinrich Brockes and Distributed Cognition: The Delicate Flux of World and Spirit

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Charlotte Lee
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Distributed Cognition

This chapter discusses Barthold Heinrich Brockes, a prolific German poet of the eighteenth-century, as a precursor of theories of distributed cognition. It argues that developments in anti-dualist and radical Protestant thought around 1700, together with Brockes’ own commitment to the ‘mixed-science’ of physico-theology, cause his poetry to resonate with modern approaches to cognition. Through close readings of individual poems from the collection Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott, the chapter examines Brockes’ presentation of the flux between mind, body and world, and of the productive use which, through what we might call ‘epistemic engineering’, humankind can make of its environment. It also remarks on the compatibility of this religious work, geared towards the celebration of God, with modern, essentially secular understandings of our world.

Matter, Form, Abstraction

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-202
Author(s):  
Jonah Siegel
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Henry James ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
New Creation ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter addresses the constantly shifting forms that mediated audiences’ experiences of admired antiquities from the late eighteenth century to the late nineteenth. Literary texts and reproductive prints not only diffused knowledge of ancient art, but shaped new creation in literature and the visual arts, which in turn contributed to the establishment of new aesthetic norms. Through analyses of authors ranging from Lessing to Winckelmann, from Coleridge to Blake, from George Eliot to Henry James, and culminating with Ruskin and Pater, this chapter argues that the emergence of an ever-more abstract and formalist vision of antiquity was shaped by the ongoing shifts in the cultural presence of antique objects.

Distributed Cognition

2016 ◽  
pp. 152-179
Author(s):  
Sherah Betts Carr ◽  
Nneka Johnson ◽  
Lucy Bush
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Cognitive Capacity ◽  
Unexpected Finding ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Curriculum Instruction

This work uses the framework of distributed cognition for understanding the way that educators perceive cognition in classroom application. The focus is on the elements of technological tools and peers as extensions of students' cognitive capacity. A qualitative study was conducted with teachers at a combined middle and secondary school in an urban area. Data from interviews in this exploratory case study revealed that teachers had minimal awareness of distributed cognition especially in terms of developing and assessing student learning outcomes. Teachers particularly struggled with ways to label, quantify and apply this construct. One unexpected finding was the concern about a lack of student expertise in utilizing tools. Suggestions call for systemic changes in curriculum, instruction and assessment. A focus on instructional technology as a mediator for critical thinking and problem solving is advocated. Additional reform measures include a renewed look at educators' epistemology through transformative professional learning.

scholarly journals #MeToo or "Me Too"?: Defining Our Terms

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin L. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject

How we talk about misogyny and sexual violence in literary texts matters—to our students, to our colleagues, and to the future of the humanities and of higher education—and the “Me Too” movement has revived with new urgency debates about how to do that. In this essay, I explore the ethical implications of invoking the “Me Too” movement in the classroom, and I offer a model for designing a course that does not simply present women’s narratives as objects of study but rather uses those narratives to give students opportunities and tools to participate in the “Me Too” movement themselves. To re-think eighteenth-century women’s writing in light of “Me Too,” I contend, is to participate in the movement, and so in our teaching we must engage with the ethics of the movement as well as the subject matter.

Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Hone
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Alexander Pope ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Joseph Addison ◽  
Nahum Tate ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Generation ◽  
First Time

This book is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of the early eighteenth century. Using previously neglected, misunderstood, and newly discovered material, it shows that arguments about Anne’s right to the throne were crucial to the construction of nascent party political identities. Literary texts were the principal vehicle through which contemporaries debated the new queen’s legitimacy. This book sheds fresh light on canonical authors such as Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, and Joseph Addison by setting their writing alongside the work of lesser known but nonetheless important figures such as John Tutchin, William Pittis, Nahum Tate, John Dennis, Henry Sacheverell, Charles Leslie, and other anonymous and pseudonymous authors. Through close historical readings, it shows how this new generation of poets, preachers, and pamphleteers transformed older models of succession writing by Milton, Dryden, and others, and imbued conventional genres such as panegyric and satire with their own distinctive poetics. By immersing the major authors in their milieu, and reconstructing the political and material contexts in which those authors wrote, this book demonstrates the vitality of debates about royal succession in early eighteenth-century culture.

scholarly journals A la búsqueda de los textos olvidados. Los orígenes de la modernidad discursiva en la historia del español

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Cano Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Siglo De Oro ◽  
History Of ◽  
Discursive Traditions

AbstractThe transition between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been a period of very little, if any, knowledge for the historians of Spanish. Between the classical period of the Siglo de Oro and the beginning of modernity in the eighteenth century there was no event of interest at that time. Modern research on the history of Spanish vocabulary or texts shows that from1675 onwards we can find forms and discursive traditions that are central in modern Spanish, while processes fromearlier periods continued. In this paperwe will analyze some of themost significant (non-literary) texts of those years, and try to establish their defining linguistic and discursive traits.

Eighteenth-Century Antiquity: Extended, Embodied, Enacted

2019 ◽  
pp. 219-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Slaney
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Extended Cognition ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Johann Gottfried Herder ◽  
Enactive Cognition ◽  
Tableaux Vivants ◽  
Physical Limitations ◽  
The Aesthetic

Sir William Hamilton’s Greek vase collection, assembled at Naples between the 1760s and 1790s, became a turning point in the reception of ancient material culture and hence in perceptions of classical antiquity. This chapter compares three angles of approach to the collection, each corresponding to a strand of distributed cognition. Extended cognition is represented by the catalogue which made the collection available to the reading public; embodied cognition is represented by the dance performances of Emma Hamilton, Sir William’s wife, who based her tableaux vivants of ancient life around the images represented on the vases; and enactive cognition by the aesthetic theory of the ‘feeling imagination’ developed by philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who visited the Hamiltons at Naples and commented unfavourably on Emma’s performances. I argue that Herder’s rejection of Emma’s kinetic reception of ancient artwork was predicated in part on his reluctance to place physical limitations on simulated movement.

The Allure of Synthesis: Science and the Literary in Comparative and World Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-372
Author(s):  
Alessio Mattana
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Hard Science ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century

This article offers a reconstruction of the scientific lineage of comparative and world literature. It will be argued that the approaches by Philarète Chasles and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were influenced by the meaning of ‘comparative’ developed in scientific texts in the long eighteenth century. Building on the assumption that literature may be made into a hard science, a number of nineteenth-century comparatists then sought to elaborate syntheses of literature in the form of universal laws that would hold to all literary texts. I argue that this ‘scientifying’ approach to literature is still at work to this day, and I conclude my intervention by pointing to the epistemological issues that must be considered when the literary is treated scientifically.

Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Art Philosophy ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century

This collection brings together eleven essays by international specialists in Romantic and Enlightenment culture and provides a general and a period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. The essays revitalise our reading of Romantic and Enlightenment works in the fields of archaeology, history, drama, literature, art, philosophy, science and medicine, by bringing to bear recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind on the ways in which cognition is distributed across brain, body and world. The volume makes evident the ways in which the particular range of sociocultural and technological contexts that existed during the long eighteenth century periods fostered and reflected particular notions of distributed cognition.

Narratives in the workplace: Facts, fictions, and canonicity

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Fasulo ◽  
Cristina Zucchermaglio
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Workplace Studies ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
Unexpected Outcomes ◽  
Workplace Interaction

AbstractDrawing on a set of workplace interaction corpora, both dyadic and multiparty, we present three narrative forms departing from the established notion of storytelling. These have been called Rewindings, collaborative reconstructions of yet-unknown past events; Fictions, the creation of imaginary scenes; and Templates, condensed versions of experience providing information on unexpected outcomes or controversial occurrences. Without denying specificity to narrative discourse, we extend its definition here to the displacement of the described actions. We propose that, similarly to what is done in other social and human sciences, conversational studies ought to take into consideration the description of events that are not fully known at the onset of narration and that are partially or entirely suggested by the narrators. The study also contributes to the field of workplace studies, providing an illustration of the functioning of distributed cognition and situated knowledge by showing how narrative is a collaborative enterprise facilitating problem solving and the dissemination of competence.

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