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Patrick Colm Hogan
Patrick Colm Hogan extends his earlier work to argue that story genres play a prominent role in the fashioning of postcolonization literature, encompassing both the colonial and postcolonial periods.
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Patrick Hogan
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
While we must always look forward, we still have to understand where we came from, our history, in order…
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Provides intermediate-level students of Classical Greek the necessary linguistic, historical, mythographical, archaeological, and geographical information to read and comprehend Book Two of Pausanias’ Periegesis. Book Two of Pausanias’ work covers…
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Dr Patrick Kenny, Fr John Hogan
This book presents brief, inspiring biographies of over 40 Irish men and women whose causes for canonization are in progress, along with others who enjoy a strong reputation for sanctity…
Colm Hogan Patrick
Readers should come away from the book with a systematic understanding of recent research on and theorization of emotion, knowledge of the way affective science has impacted literary study, and…
Roy Strauss,Patrick Hogan
Is your website project out of control? Every website project needs a manager. This book describes Internet technologies in plain language and helps you see beyond your expertise to the…
Empowering people with the knowledge to make sound financial decisions is an important way to make a difference in your community, and many libraries are doing just that. Drawing from…
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A cultural-cognitive analysis of Indian cinema intended to increase understanding and appreciation of Indian films in the English-speaking world.
Explores diverse cultural identities, both theoretically and through concrete, specific interpretations of selected major texts from former British colonies.
Draws on a broad and detailed knowledge of Indian, African, and European literary cultures to explore the way colonized writers repond to the subtle and contradictory pressures of both metropolitian…
Explores the relation of post-colonization authors to literary traditions.
What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent work in cognitive science, affective science, and…
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 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…
Challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about being and knowing that have long kept theorists debating at cross purposes. This book sets forth a theory of meaning and interpretation and…
In Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan draws on cognitive and affective science as well as literary works and personal experience. The book provides a clear, systematic account of personal identity…
Patrick Paul Hogan
Introduces the first book of Pausanias’ Description of Greece to students of Classical Greek. Pausanias’ second century CE work is the only surviving ancient description of the monuments and artwork…
Reconsiders fundamental issues of authorship and narration in light of recent research in cognitive and affective science.
From the rise of Nazism to the conflict in Kashmir in 2008, nationalism has been one of the most potent forces in modern history. Yet the motivational power of nationalism…
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.
Focusing in particular on western acquiescence to a system that underpays and under-represents the vast majority of the population, this title moves beyond typical studies of this phenomenon by stressing…
During the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Kashmir-a Muslim-majority area ruled by a Hindu maharaja-became a hotly disputed territory. Divided between India and Pakistan, the region has been the…
Provides a powerful explanatory account of narrative organization
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…
THE DEATH OF THE GODDESS is an epic, narrative poem that is a moving account of affection, personal loss, and grief. Inspired by Buddhism, Indic thought and Hogan’s reading of…
When A. arrives in Somota after the first world war, he is unsure of what to expect. Employed by the government as a linguistic anthropologist, he is tasked with documenting…
In an original study, Patrick Colm Hogan brings the insights of global comparative literature to bear on central issues of ethics. A compelling, narrative-based explanation of humans' otherwise baffling array…
Patrick Colm Hogan (University of Connecticut)
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…
In an original study, Patrick Colm Hogan brings the insights of global comparative literature to bear on central issues of ethics. A compelling, narrative-based explanation of humans’ otherwise baffling array…
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 explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations. Patrick Colm Hogan develops a rigorous theory of…
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates this research with the insights of philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to…
Edward Patrick Hogan,Joan Marie Hogan
Explores the people, culture, history, geography, environment, economy, and government of Sweden.
Patrick Colm Hogan (University of Connecticut, USA)
Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts is a student-friendly introduction to the uses of cognitive science in the study of literature, written specifically for the non-scientist. It provides a strong…
