Cognition and Literary Interpretation in Practice
An international conference organised by The Finnish Graduate School of
Literary Studies
27-29 August 2004
University of Helsinki, Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40 B)
Friday, 27 August
9.00 Registration begins
10.00 Opening of the Conference
10.15 Plenary lecture
Margaret H. Freeman: "Poetry and Power: The Dynamics of Cognitive Poetics as
a Scientific and Literary Paradigm"
11.15 Break
11.45 Session 1: Framing Cognition and Interpretation
Chair: Arto Haapala (University of Helsinki)
Peter Stockwell: "Cognitive Poetics and Stylistics"
Timothy Weiss: "Interpretation as Translatability: An Inquiry into the
Cognitive Aspects of Iser's Model"
Philippe Lacour: "A Cognitive Frame for Interpretation?"
13.15 Lunch
14.15 Session 2: Model, Mind and Text - Semiotic and Cognitive Aspects
Chair: Bo Pettersson (University of Helsinki)
Ulf Cronquist: "Cognitive Poetics: The Power of Signification and the
Historicity of the Embodied Mind"
Harri Veivo and Tarja Knuuttila: "Theorizing, Modeling and Interpretation in
Cognitive Literary Studies"
Christina Ljungberg: "Models of Reading: Diagrammatic Aspects of Literary
Texts"
15.45 Break
16.00 Session 3: Unreliable Narration and the Disorientation of the Reader
Chair: Markku Lehtimäki (University of Tampere)
Bo Pettersson: "The Many Faces of Unreliable Narration: Cognitive
Narratological Perspectives"
Margarete Rubik: "Navigating Through Fantasy Worlds: Cognition and the
Intricacies of Reader Response to Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair"
Mikko Nortela: "Are There Non-Linear Texts or Just Incompetent Readers?"
18.00 Reception hosted by Vice Rector Marja Makarow
Saturday, 28 August
9.15 Session 4.1: Emotions, Beliefs and Literature
Chair: Kuisma Korhonen (University of Helsinki)
Suzanne Keen: "Empathy and the Novel"
Howard Sklar: "Believable Fictions: The Moral Implications of Story-Based
Emotions"
Fabio Vericat: "Operating the Cultural By-Pass: The Cognitive Drive in T.S.
Eliot's Scientific Rhetoric"
Leena Eilittä: "The Question of Mystical Experience in German Romanticism"
AND
Session 4.2: Metaphor and Text Organization
Chair: Harri Veivo (University of Helsinki)
Denis Akhapkin: "Cognitive Poetics and Joseph Brodsky's Poetry"
Kira Andreeva: "Conceptual Metaphor in Literary Discourse"
Olga Vorobyova: "The Mark on the Wall" and Literary Fancy: A Cognitive
Sketch
Jean Jacques Weber: "Cognitive Poetics and Literary Criticism: Types of
Resolution in the Condition-of-England Novel"
11.15 Break
11.30 Plenary lecture
Jørgen Dines Johansen: "Theoretical Exemplification vs. Interpretation. Or
why theory is always letting down interpretation, ans why interpretation is
always impure and patchy"
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Session 5.1: Cognition, Blends and Textual Modes
Chair: Merja Polvinen (University of Helsinki)
Mika Hallila: "Metafiction and Cognition"
Vladimir Andreev: "Mode Chopping Revisited: A Hypothetical Worlds Approach"
Alejandro Riberi: "The Cognitive Power of Fiction: The Case of Jorge Luis
Borges's Ficciones"
AND
Session 5.2: Time and Crime: Cognitive Approaches to the Interpretation of
Novels
Chair: Heta Pyrhönen (University of Helsinki)
Sirkka Knuuttila: "Time in Peter Høeg's Novel De måske egnede - A Cognitive
Approach"
Heidi Strengell and Paula Strengell: "The Meaning of the Primal Scene
Fantasy in Object Relations as Seen in Patricia Cornwell's Jack the Ripper -
Case Closed"
Natalya Torkut and Kateryna Vasylyna: "Peculiarities of Interpretation of
the Concept of 'Crime' in 16th C. English Rogue Literature"
15.00 Break
15.30 Session 6.1: Fictions, Worlds and Doubles
Chair: Klaus Brax (University of Helsinki)
Joanna Gavins: "Text World Theory in Literary Practice"
Marina Grishakova: "Virtual Stories and Pseudomorphosis"
Helena Imaeva: "Linguistic Features of Metatext"
AND
Session 6.2: Cognitive Studies and the Teaching of Literature
Chair: Joseph Flanagan (University of Helsinki)
Beata Agrell, Celicia Alvstad and Staffan Thorson: "Naturalization,
Desautomatization, and Estrangement: Problems of Literary Reception and
Cognition in Academic Teaching"
Susanne Reichl: "'But what is the point? - I don't get it!' Towards a
Cognitive Rationale for the Teaching of Foreign Language Literature"
Liza Das: "From Hard Poetics to Situated Interpretation: Broadening the
Scope of Literary-Cognitive Studies"
19.00 Conference dinner at Suomenlinna Maritime Fortress
Sunday, 29 August
10.15 Session 7: Foundations, Limitations adn Advantages of Narratology
Chair: Pekka Tammi (University of Tampere)
Markku Lehtimäki and Maria Mäkelä: "Literary Frames and Fictional Minds"
Joseph Murphy: "On the Possibility of Physical Investigation into Narrative
Comprehension"
Arnaud Schmitt: "Is Spontaneous Analytic Reading Possible?"
11.45 Break
12.00 Plenary lecture
David S. Miall: "Beyond Interpretation: The Cognitive Significance of
Reading"
13.00 Closing Discussion
13.30 Lunch
For further information and registration, please see
www.eng.helsinki.fi/tutkoulu/cognition.htm or contact
merja.polvinen@helsinki.fi
Merja Polvinen, Lic.Phil.
Coordinator/Researcher
The Finnish Graduate School
of Literary Studies
Department of English
P.O.Box 24 (Unioninkatu 40B)
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
++358-(0)9-191 21789
++358-(0)9-191 23072 (fax)
merja.polvinen@helsinki.fi