{"product_id":"cognitive-fictions-joseph-tabbi-9780816635573","title":"Cognitive Fictions","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e The first comprehensive look at the effect of new technologies on contemporary American fiction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bringing together cognitive science and literary analysis to map a new \"media ecology,\" \u003ci\u003eCognitive Fictions \u003c\/i\u003elimns an evolutionary process in which literature must find its place in an artificial environment partly produced and thoroughly mediated by technological means. Joseph Tabbi provides a penetrating account of a developing consciousness emerging from the struggle between print and electronic systems of communication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCentral to Tabbi's work is the relation between the arrangement of communicating \"modules\" that cognitive science uses to describe the human mind and the arrangement of visual, verbal, and aural media in our technological culture. He looks at particular literary works by Thomas Pynchon, Richard Powers, David Markson, Lynne Tillman, Paul Auster, and others as both inscriptions of thought consistent with distributed cognitive models, and as self-creations out of the media environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first close reading of contemporary American writing in the light of systems theory and cognitive science, \u003ci\u003eCognitive Fictions \u003c\/i\u003emakes needed sense of how the moment-by-moment operations of human thought find narrative form in a world increasingly defined by competing and often incompatible representations.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Tabbi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816635579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816635573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.36w x 0.43d","brand":"Joseph Tabbi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149204320511,"sku":"9780816635573","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e143248f-3e44-4add-849d-a13ef1c40887.jpg?v=1688455403","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cognitive-fictions-joseph-tabbi-9780816635573","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}