Explores diverse cultural identities, both theoretically and through concrete, specific interpretations of selected major texts from former British colonies.

Hogan examines how important, post-Civil War authors imagined American identity-understood as universal, democratic egalitarianism-when faced with the nation's often brutal inequalities of race, sex, and sexuality. In Hogan's analysis, this…

Hogan draws on recent cognitive science to expand our understanding of Ulysses, as well as our theoretical comprehension of narrative-and even our views of human cognition.

One of the most important developments of the last fifty years has been the explosive increase in our knowledge about human language. Speech acquisition, reception, and production are arguably the…

Hogan argues that the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion. He concludes with a discussion of the…

Literature provides us with insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. Hogan’s study explores emotions in the context of current neurobiological, psychological and…

This book analyzes a variety of materials from the Indian literary tradition. examining both its indigenous development and its relation to the West, and developing ideas from cultural criticism, literary…

Patrick Colm Hogan, a leading theorist of cognitive cultural studies, offers the first cognitive cultural study of identity in sex, sexuality, and gender. With precise conceptual distinctions, wide-ranging citation of…