nCognito: Papers in Cognitive Cultural Studies

Journal of the Cognitive Poetics Research Group. The journal aims to publish the results of interdisciplinary research in literary studies and cognitive science. It aims to papers that examine what cognitive processes shape the reception of literary texts, films, and other media, such as digital media, using findings from cognitive and evolutionary psychology. Each issue of the journal will have a specific thematic scope on the cognitive and emotional mechanisms that have developed during evolution and their manifestations, including the influence of causal thinking, mindreading, narrative empathy, suspense generation, and moral judgment in different aesthetic practices. In pursuit of this goal, the journal  welcomes publications  in the following broad areas of cognitive poetic scholarship: the aestheticization of meaning through metaphor, metonymy, allegories and symbols; metaphor and metonymy in the narrative fabric; the cognitive nature of poetic creation; the understanding of narrative stories and the (re)construction of meaning from literary texts; the construction of mental representations of characters and fictional worlds; the emotional processes involved in the reception of art and literature, the construction of meaning from literary texts, and other interdisciplinary issues. The journal is published online on the OJS journal platform of Klebelsberg Kuno Library of the University of Szeged. Authors and reviewers will come from universities all over the country and from abroad.