Patrick Colm Hogan, a leading theorist of cognitive cultural studies, offers the first cognitive cultural study of identity in sex, sexuality, and gender.

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as "simulations.

The book provides a clear, systematic account of personal identity that is theoretically strong, but also unique and engaging.

This book examines the diverse responses of colonized people to metropolitan ideas and to indigenous traditions.

In his preface, Hogan discusses developments in semantics and related fields that have occurred over the decade since the book first appeared.

These are the central claims of Hogan's study, which carefully examines a range of highly esteemed literary works in the context of current neurobiological, psychological, sociological, and other empirical research.

This is the first empirically and cognitively based discussion of narrative universals.

American Literature and American Identity addresses the crucial issue of identity formation, especially national identity, in influential works of American literature.

Drawing on recent psychological research, this book proposes a new and clear definition of "style" and provides a systematic theoretical account of style in relation to cognitive and affective science.

Reconsiders fundamental issues of authorship and narration in light of recent research in cognitive and affective science.