Research in psychology has suggested that reading fiction can improve individuals' social-cognitive abilities. Findings from neuroscience show and social cognition both recruit the default network, a network which is known to support our capacity simulate hypothetical scenes, spaces mental states. The current research tests hypothesis enhances because it serves exercise subnetwork involved theory of mind. While undergoing functional neuroimaging, participants read literary passages differed...

Literary historians have accounted for gutted names (like J---- S---- John Smith) in eighteenth-century satire legal terms, arguing that such typographical ruses prevented actions and prosecutions libel. But the record shows served no function. This article argues, instead, naming practices a host of commercial aesthetic functions: they advertised salacious nature invited readers to take part construction scandal. Above all, dubious ethical end, one purported protect satiric victims, but did...

It is a commonplace of literary history that satire vanishes in the middle eighteenth century. clear, however, written and especially visual witnessed massive growth final decades century throughout Romantic era. My goal to explain this simultaneous contraction expansion satiric marketplace. Rather than dying, I argue, began migrate media, caricature, after mid-century. The reason for migration was shifting procedural norms libel law itself. Over first half century, courts developed...

Storytelling pervades almost every aspect of the law. Many narrativistic legal elements, however, have in fact been little more than historically transitory. Given precarious status narrative at law, I argue we should focus instead on one most consistent acts storytelling: judicial opinion. Here examine particular invocation precedent opinions, what call “judicial emplotment,” as an archetypal act formalized storytelling. As go to argue, courts justify outcomes by invoking precedent, thereby...

in Sorgues, Southeastern France, a three-year old child was sent to preschool with T-shirt reading "je suis une bombe!" [I am bomb!] on one side, and "Jihad, né le 11 septembre" [Jihad, born September 11th] the other.The played child's actual name (Jihad, which is common Arab world) date of birth (which actually 11th).Jihad's uncle had given him as birthday present, asked his sister (Jihad's mother) have wear it at least once.Both adults claimed that they only intended this joke.However,...

Journal Article Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590–1660. By Marissa Nicosia Get access Nicosia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Illus. Pp. xvi + 216. Andrew Bricker [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4972-1282 Search for other works by this author on: Academic Google Scholar Shakespeare Quarterly, quae041, https://doi.org/10.1093/sq/quae041 Published: 13 December 2024

Timothy Hyde’s Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye offers a wide-ranging account of architecture Britain over past three centuries. goal, however, is not to offer...

Literary scholars often take at face value Henry Fielding’s most overt rejections of Bernard Mandeville, a writer he associated with egoism and who argued that self-interest is the core all virtuous action. Yet are not decisive, tending instead towards ad hominem attacks, insubstantial objections, unexpected accommodations egoist arguments. Throughout his corpus, Fielding exhibits creeping Mandevilleanism: thought frequently gets uncredited airing in works. debt to clearest attempts define...

In this introduction, we outline several approaches to the role humor might play in relation law through six articles contributed special issue and important more recent theories that have guided discussions of humor. We take up two aspects particular when addressing efficacy humor: its ability serve as a diagnostic tool even cure; weaknesses, limitations, shortcomings. Finally, specific contributions makes study some new directions for research into around affect, ethics, aesthetics, politics.

David Francis Taylor. The Politics of Parody: A Literary History Caricature, 1760–1830. Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. 320. $50 (cloth). - Volume 58 Issue 2

At the heart of Trevor Ross’s important new book, Writing in Public, is literature’s ‘role public life’, which ‘underwent radical revision at levels both theory and practice during transition to democracy’ (p. 225). His interest this question has less do with what literature actually did than how its functions as a ‘public discourse’ 3) were reconceptualized last decades eighteenth century. jumping off point for ‘cultural history ideas about place sphere’ ‘liberalization expression’ period,...