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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

  • The Bounds of Interpretation: Linguistic Theory and Literary Text. co authors, Ellen Schauber, Ellen Spolsky Stanford UP, 1986.
  • The Uses of Adversity: Failure and Accommodation in Reader Response. Bucknell UP, 1990
  • Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind SUNY Pr, was 1993 an early text for cognitive literary studies
  • Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory. SUNY UP, (Editor)
  • The Judgment of Susanna: Authority and Witness.(editor and contributor) Scholars Press, 1996
  • Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in the Early Modern World, Ashgate, 2001 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 Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity. Ashgate, 2004, Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky, eds.
  • Iconotropism: Turning Toward Pictures. Ellen Spolsky,ed and contributor, Ilana Bing (contributor) Bucknell UP 2004
  • Word vs Image: Cognitive Hunger in Shakespeare’s England," Palgrave Macmillan, 2007' explores literature and art, particularly the grotesque, as meeting the intellectual anxieties of Christians after the Protestant Reformation.
  • "The Contracts of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, Community, Oxford UP.
  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.
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