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Ellen Spolsky is Professor Emeritas of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is a literary scholar and theorist who has published several monographs that deal with topics such as history of philosophy, cognitive cultural theory,[1][2] iconotropism, performance theory, and some aspects of evolutionary literary theory (Darwinian literary studies).[3] Her books and essays discuss both the universal and historically local aspects of Renaissance art, poetry and drama.[4][5][6]

Books

  • Word vs Image: Cognitive Hunger in Shakespeare’s England (2007) explores literature and art, particularly the grotesque, as meeting the intellectual needs of the devote after the Protestant Reformation.
  • Iconotropism: Turning Toward Pictures. Ellen Spolsky, Ilana Bing (contributor) 2004
  • The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity. Alan Richardson (Editor), Ellen Spolsky (Editor).
  • Literature and the Cognitive Revolution. Alan Richardson, Lisa Zunshine(contributor, Lisa Zunshine), Paul Hernadi (contributor), Ellen Spolsky (Contributor) . 2002
  • Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind (1993) was an early text for cognitive literary studies.[7]
  • Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in the Early Modern World (2001)[8] discusses the popularity of country life and its relationship to the deprivations of Reformation iconoclasm, with examples from to Shakespeare, Sidney, Michelangelo, and in Dutch post-Reformation art.
  • The Judgment of Susanna: Authority and Witness.(contributor) 1996
  • Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory. (Editor)
  • The Uses of Adversity: Failure and Accommodation in Reader Response. 1990
  • The Bounds of Interpretation: Linguistic Theory and Literary Text. Ellen Schauber, Ellen Spolsky. 1986.

References

  1. ^ David Herman; Manfred Jahn; Marie-Laure Ryan (10 June 2010). Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Routledge. pp. 395–. ISBN 978-1-134-45839-4.
  2. ^ Antonina Harbus (2012). Cognitive Approaches to Old English Poetry. DS Brewer. pp. 10–. ISBN 978-1-84384-325-2.
  3. ^ Robert Chodat (2008). Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo. Cornell University Press. pp. 86–. ISBN 0-8014-4678-3.
  4. ^ Dan W. Clanton, Jr. (1 April 2009). Daring, Disreputable and Devout: Interpreting the Hebrew Bible's Women in the Arts and Music. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 164–. ISBN 978-0-567-50255-1.
  5. ^ Bonnie Howe; Joel B. Green (24 October 2014). Cognitive Linguistic Explorations in Biblical Studies. De Gruyter. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-3-11-035013-5.
  6. ^ Tom Hertweck (30 October 2014). Food on Film: Bringing Something New to the Table. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 159–. ISBN 978-1-4422-4361-3.
  7. ^ Lisa Zunshine (14 January 2015). The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. Oxford University Press. pp. 574–. ISBN 978-0-19-997806-9.
  8. ^ Frederick Luis Aldama (10 May 2010). Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts. University of Texas Press. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-0-292-78432-1.
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