Narrative

The Neuroscience of Literary Time Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance

Narrative October 1, 2023 Paul B. Armstrong 3 citations

ABSTRACT: How do literary works speak across historical distance? When critics attempt to answer this question, they typically invoke biological metaphors that testify to the inability of formal or historical categories alone to explain the mystery of how literary works reach across the boundary between life and death. This essay investigates the embodied cognitive processes that enable...