Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What
should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour …

Sometimes our routines seem transparent, and we forget that they have a history. It's
commonplace for academics in the humanities to assume that every field consists of objects …

From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on
revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as …

Personal pronouns have been shown to influence cognitive perspective taking during
comprehension. Studies using single sentences found that 3rd person pronouns facilitate …

Theatrocracy is a book about the power of the theatre, how it can affect the people who
experience it, and the societies within which it is embedded. It takes as its model the earliest …

The growing field of literature and science is for the first time given a fully theorized
overview. Using case studies from a three hundred year history, Sleigh focuses on literary …

Over the past thirteen years or so, evolutionary literary study has emerged as a distinct
movement, and that movement is rapidly gaining in visibility and impact. More than a …

Experiments have shown that compared to fictional texts, readers read factual texts faster
and have better memory for described situations. Reading fictional texts on the other hand …

For roughly 2500 years, ethical references constituted the starting point (and often the
ending point) for most literary commentary. From Plato's attack on tragedy up through the …

This Guide introduces literature and science as a vibrant field of critical study that is
increasingly influencing both university curricula and future areas of investigation. Martin …