Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics - Kukkonen, Karin (Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oslo)

Carrying neoclassicism back into today's critical debates, this study considers the cognitive underpinnings of the rules of poetic justice, the unities and decorum, underlines their relevance for today's cognitive poetics and traces their influence in the emerging narrative form of the eighteenth-century novel.