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

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

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

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.

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 an introduction to what cognitive science has to offer the humanities and particularly the study of literature. Hogan suggests how the human brain works and makes us feel in response to literature.

The book concludes by considering when, or if, one can achieve a genuinely postcolonial condition.

This book integrates this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to longstanding questions about beauty and sublimity.

In this book, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out through close analysis and explication of culturally particular information about Indian history, Hindu metaphysics, Islamic spirituality, Sanskrit aesthetics, and other Indian traditions to provide ...

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