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Stories, Meaning, and Experience, 2015
Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, ... more Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin © Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI to ensure permanence and durability. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data From ...
Supportive Care in Cancer, 2021
Purpose To uncover the experience of time in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Me... more Purpose To uncover the experience of time in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Methods A combination of consensual qualitative research and Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenology. Results The key phenomenon found and pre-reflectively organizing the patients’ experience was the temporal paradox of chemotherapy—a sense of both acceleration and deceleration in between chemotherapy sessions that desynchronizes patients with the time of others. Conclusion The experienced paradoxes concentrating around the timings of the chemotherapy treatments are of particular relevance for supportive care. It is particularly important to acknowledge the disturbing effect of the cyclical nature of chemotherapy.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
This paper proposes an understanding of literary narrative as a form of social cognition and situ... more This paper proposes an understanding of literary narrative as a form of social cognition and situates the study of such narratives in relation to the new comprehensive approach to human cognition, enaction. The particular form of enactive cognition that narrative understanding is proposed to depend on is that of participatory sense-making, as developed in the work of Di Paolo and De Jaegher. Currently there is no consensus as to what makes a good literary narrative, how it is understood, and why it plays such an irreplaceable role in human experience. The proposal thus identifies a gap in the existing research on narrative by describing narrative as a form of intersubjective process of sense-making between two agents, a teller and a reader. It argues that making sense of narrative literature is an interactional process of co-constructing a story-world with a narrator. Such an understanding of narrative makes a decisive break with both text-centered approaches that have dominated both structuralist and early cognitivist study of narrative, as well as pragmatic communicative ones that view narrative as a form of linguistic implicature. The interactive experience that narrative affords and necessitates at the same time, I argue, serves to highlight the active yet cooperative and communal nature of human sociality, expressed in the many forms than human beings interact in, including literary ones.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00895 Narrativity and enaction: the social nature of literary narrative u... more doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00895 Narrativity and enaction: the social nature of literary narrative understanding
The Encyclopedia of the Novel
Languaging Relations for Transforming the Literacy and Language Arts Classroom, 2019
Style, 2006
Patrick Colin Hogan and Lalita Pandit, eds. Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Ag... more Patrick Colin Hogan and Lalita Pandit, eds. Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Cognitive Science. Spec. issue of College Literature 33.1 (2006): 1-255. The complex and mutually beneficial interaction between literary studies and the cognitive sciences is already an established fact of multidisciplinary scholarship. The collection of essays under review represents another promising testament to the relatively slow but steady rise of interest in this undoubtedly profitable interaction. Specifically, the collection is characterized by the use of cognitive science to throw light on aspects of literature, rather than the use of literature to illustrate findings from cognitive science. The editors' stated intent in this book is to "expose some of the diversity that marks cognitive science today, and to explore the implications of this diversity for literary study" (2). In terms of the study of literature, this kind of enterprise is seen by the editors ...
European Journal of Oncology Nursing
This paper reports on the theory, design, and implementation of an artistic computer colleague th... more This paper reports on the theory, design, and implementation of an artistic computer colleague that improvises and collaborates with human users in real-time. Our system, Drawing Apprentice, is based on existing theories of art, creative cognition, and collaboration synthesized into an enactive model of creativity. The implementation details of the Drawing Apprentice are provided along with early collaborative artwork created with the system. We present the enactive model of creativity as a potential theoretical framework for designing creative systems involving continuous improvisational collaboration between a human and computer.
The focus of this article is a further investigation into the already existing intersection of re... more The focus of this article is a further investigation into the already existing intersection of research in cognitive science and literary studies. Special attention will be paid to the specificity of the dramatic text, seen as both verbal and performed. Drama, a term which has traditionally been applied rather loosely to describe texts written for the theater, is characterized by dialogue between at least two actors. It presupposes conflict and its resolution; hence it is often linked to high emotional friction. Stylistic studies of dramatic works, both as text and as performance, have been scarce. (1) Most exhaustively until now theater has been studied by semioticians, who have commented not just on the linguistic aspects of a dramatic work but paid attention to the nonverbal modes of expression in this genre. My aim in this article is to utilize insights from the emerging field of cognitive poetics for an analysis of drama that engages its verbal and nonverbal aspects as well as ...
Review of Caracciolo, Marco. The Experientiality of Narrative. An Enactivist Approach. Berlin: De... more Review of Caracciolo, Marco. The Experientiality of Narrative. An Enactivist Approach. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. Print.
Stories, Meaning, and Experience
Part One: Perceptual causality and narrative causality -- Narrativity and enaction: The social na... more Part One: Perceptual causality and narrative causality -- Narrativity and enaction: The social nature of literary narrative understanding -- Narrative and metaphor: on two alternative organizations of human experience -- Part Two: Narrativity and enaction in chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Narrative and allegory in Kazuo Ishiguro's never let me go -- Narrative and metaphor in the tales of Henry James.
Cognitive Semiotics
Human experience is inherently temporal and involves placing events, symbols, and actions in a te... more Human experience is inherently temporal and involves placing events, symbols, and actions in a temporal scheme. This article deals with a specific aspect of temporal experience as it relates to reading and experiencing narrative fiction. Within an enactive understanding of human cognition, we propose a view of literary reading as a process of participatory sense-making between a reader and a storyteller. The enactive theory of participatory sense-making maintains that agents, by enacting their own sense-making, directly and partially constitute the sense-making of other agents. Sense-makers in interaction navigate two orders of normativity: their own and that of the interaction itself. Linguistic sense-making (languaging) opens up further possibilities for understanding complex spatially and temporally distributed forms of social interactions such as narrative interactions. Reading a narrative is one such example of mutually constituted navigation between an interaction dynamic and ...
Human experience is inherently temporal and involves placing events, symbols, and actions in a te... more Human experience is inherently temporal and involves placing events, symbols, and actions in a temporal scheme. This article deals with a specific aspect of temporal experience as it relates to reading and experiencing narrative fiction. Within an enactive understanding of human cognition, we propose a view of literary reading as a process of participatory sense-making between a reader and a storyteller. The enactive theory of participatory sense-making maintains that agents, by enacting their own sense-making, directly and partially constitute the sense-making of other agents. Sense-makers in interaction navigate two orders of normativity: their own and that of the interaction itself. Linguistic sense-making (languaging) opens up further possibilities for understanding complex spatially and temporally distributed forms of social interactions such as narrative interactions. Reading a narrative is one such example of mutually constituted navigation between an interaction dynamic and ...
Stories, Meaning, and Experience, 2015
Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, ... more Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin © Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI to ensure permanence and durability. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data From ...
Supportive Care in Cancer, 2021
Purpose To uncover the experience of time in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Me... more Purpose To uncover the experience of time in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Methods A combination of consensual qualitative research and Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenology. Results The key phenomenon found and pre-reflectively organizing the patients’ experience was the temporal paradox of chemotherapy—a sense of both acceleration and deceleration in between chemotherapy sessions that desynchronizes patients with the time of others. Conclusion The experienced paradoxes concentrating around the timings of the chemotherapy treatments are of particular relevance for supportive care. It is particularly important to acknowledge the disturbing effect of the cyclical nature of chemotherapy.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
This paper proposes an understanding of literary narrative as a form of social cognition and situ... more This paper proposes an understanding of literary narrative as a form of social cognition and situates the study of such narratives in relation to the new comprehensive approach to human cognition, enaction. The particular form of enactive cognition that narrative understanding is proposed to depend on is that of participatory sense-making, as developed in the work of Di Paolo and De Jaegher. Currently there is no consensus as to what makes a good literary narrative, how it is understood, and why it plays such an irreplaceable role in human experience. The proposal thus identifies a gap in the existing research on narrative by describing narrative as a form of intersubjective process of sense-making between two agents, a teller and a reader. It argues that making sense of narrative literature is an interactional process of co-constructing a story-world with a narrator. Such an understanding of narrative makes a decisive break with both text-centered approaches that have dominated both structuralist and early cognitivist study of narrative, as well as pragmatic communicative ones that view narrative as a form of linguistic implicature. The interactive experience that narrative affords and necessitates at the same time, I argue, serves to highlight the active yet cooperative and communal nature of human sociality, expressed in the many forms than human beings interact in, including literary ones.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00895 Narrativity and enaction: the social nature of literary narrative u... more doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00895 Narrativity and enaction: the social nature of literary narrative understanding
The Encyclopedia of the Novel
Languaging Relations for Transforming the Literacy and Language Arts Classroom, 2019
Style, 2006
Patrick Colin Hogan and Lalita Pandit, eds. Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Ag... more Patrick Colin Hogan and Lalita Pandit, eds. Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Cognitive Science. Spec. issue of College Literature 33.1 (2006): 1-255. The complex and mutually beneficial interaction between literary studies and the cognitive sciences is already an established fact of multidisciplinary scholarship. The collection of essays under review represents another promising testament to the relatively slow but steady rise of interest in this undoubtedly profitable interaction. Specifically, the collection is characterized by the use of cognitive science to throw light on aspects of literature, rather than the use of literature to illustrate findings from cognitive science. The editors' stated intent in this book is to "expose some of the diversity that marks cognitive science today, and to explore the implications of this diversity for literary study" (2). In terms of the study of literature, this kind of enterprise is seen by the editors ...
European Journal of Oncology Nursing
This paper reports on the theory, design, and implementation of an artistic computer colleague th... more This paper reports on the theory, design, and implementation of an artistic computer colleague that improvises and collaborates with human users in real-time. Our system, Drawing Apprentice, is based on existing theories of art, creative cognition, and collaboration synthesized into an enactive model of creativity. The implementation details of the Drawing Apprentice are provided along with early collaborative artwork created with the system. We present the enactive model of creativity as a potential theoretical framework for designing creative systems involving continuous improvisational collaboration between a human and computer.
The focus of this article is a further investigation into the already existing intersection of re... more The focus of this article is a further investigation into the already existing intersection of research in cognitive science and literary studies. Special attention will be paid to the specificity of the dramatic text, seen as both verbal and performed. Drama, a term which has traditionally been applied rather loosely to describe texts written for the theater, is characterized by dialogue between at least two actors. It presupposes conflict and its resolution; hence it is often linked to high emotional friction. Stylistic studies of dramatic works, both as text and as performance, have been scarce. (1) Most exhaustively until now theater has been studied by semioticians, who have commented not just on the linguistic aspects of a dramatic work but paid attention to the nonverbal modes of expression in this genre. My aim in this article is to utilize insights from the emerging field of cognitive poetics for an analysis of drama that engages its verbal and nonverbal aspects as well as ...
Review of Caracciolo, Marco. The Experientiality of Narrative. An Enactivist Approach. Berlin: De... more Review of Caracciolo, Marco. The Experientiality of Narrative. An Enactivist Approach. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. Print.
Stories, Meaning, and Experience
Part One: Perceptual causality and narrative causality -- Narrativity and enaction: The social na... more Part One: Perceptual causality and narrative causality -- Narrativity and enaction: The social nature of literary narrative understanding -- Narrative and metaphor: on two alternative organizations of human experience -- Part Two: Narrativity and enaction in chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Narrative and allegory in Kazuo Ishiguro's never let me go -- Narrative and metaphor in the tales of Henry James.
Cognitive Semiotics
Human experience is inherently temporal and involves placing events, symbols, and actions in a te... more Human experience is inherently temporal and involves placing events, symbols, and actions in a temporal scheme. This article deals with a specific aspect of temporal experience as it relates to reading and experiencing narrative fiction. Within an enactive understanding of human cognition, we propose a view of literary reading as a process of participatory sense-making between a reader and a storyteller. The enactive theory of participatory sense-making maintains that agents, by enacting their own sense-making, directly and partially constitute the sense-making of other agents. Sense-makers in interaction navigate two orders of normativity: their own and that of the interaction itself. Linguistic sense-making (languaging) opens up further possibilities for understanding complex spatially and temporally distributed forms of social interactions such as narrative interactions. Reading a narrative is one such example of mutually constituted navigation between an interaction dynamic and ...
Human experience is inherently temporal and involves placing events, symbols, and actions in a te... more Human experience is inherently temporal and involves placing events, symbols, and actions in a temporal scheme. This article deals with a specific aspect of temporal experience as it relates to reading and experiencing narrative fiction. Within an enactive understanding of human cognition, we propose a view of literary reading as a process of participatory sense-making between a reader and a storyteller. The enactive theory of participatory sense-making maintains that agents, by enacting their own sense-making, directly and partially constitute the sense-making of other agents. Sense-makers in interaction navigate two orders of normativity: their own and that of the interaction itself. Linguistic sense-making (languaging) opens up further possibilities for understanding complex spatially and temporally distributed forms of social interactions such as narrative interactions. Reading a narrative is one such example of mutually constituted navigation between an interaction dynamic and ...
Supportive Care in Cancer, 2021
Purpose To uncover the experience of time in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Me... more Purpose To uncover the experience of time in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Methods A combination of consensual qualitative research and Giorgi's descriptive phenomenology. Results The key phenomenon found and pre-reflectively organizing the patients' experience was the temporal paradox of chemotherapy-a sense of both acceleration and deceleration in between chemotherapy sessions that desynchronizes patients with the time of others. Conclusion The experienced paradoxes concentrating around the timings of the chemotherapy treatments are of particular relevance for supportive care. It is particularly important to acknowledge the disturbing effect of the cyclical nature of chemotherapy.