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BLOG POST | 1. March 2023

In Our Image: The Remaking of Esther in Every Age

Public lecture by Laura Suzanne Lieber (Duke University) during the conference "Characters in Mind: The Migration of Characters in Ancient Jewish, Ancient Christian & Greco-Roman Literature and Art" at the University of Bonn (Germany), 8–10 February, 2023. ...
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BLOG POST | 1. February 2023

Cognition, Prepositions, and Point of View: Interview with Rachel & Mike Aubrey

Rachel and Mike Aubrey, with SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) International, talk about their translation work and research on prepositions and point of view in cognitive perspective. ...
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BLOG POST | 1. February 2023

Thinking and Feeling like the Ancients? Studying Emotion and Cognition through Reader Response

From a cognitive viewpoint, emotions are, at least in their basic design, a pan-human, universal phenomenon, and narrative in particular is intimately bound up with emotion. If basal embodied mechanisms play a central role in readers’ processing and experiencing of narrative texts, it cannot be denied that reader responses must always be similar in certain respects, even if the readers come from very different times and cultural backgrounds. ...
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BLOG POST | 1. January 2023

Characters in Mind: How Readers Recognize Literary Persons across Narratives

Binge-watching became a habit for my kids and me long before the Covid pandemic. It has already been a few years since the four of us devoured all Shrek movies together in a single weekend, but I remember being amazed that our children, without giving it much thought, recognized among the cast Cinderella, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, and a bunch of other characters they knew from our bedtime readings. What really got ...
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