Kafka's Cognitive Realism

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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cognitive Realism, Kafka, and Literary Studies
	1. Realism, Cognitive Realism, and Kafka
	2. Methodology and Relation to Other Areas of Literary Studies
	3. Embodied Cognition
	4. Embodied Cognition and Language
	5. Embodied Cognition and Literary Language
	6. Why Vision?
	7. Vision in Kafka Studies
	8. Kafkaesque Dualities
	9. Chapter Outlines
1 Perception without Pictures
	1. Reading and Pictorialism versus Enactivism
	2. Pictorialism
	3. The Literary History of Pictorialism
	4. Realism and Pictures, in Practice
	5. The Philosophical and Scientific History of Pictorialism, and Emerging Non-Pictorial Strands
	6. Enactivism: A Solution to Pictorialist Problems?
2 Re-Envisioning the Imagination
	1. Kafka’s Diaries, Letters, and Fictions
	2. Arts and Sciences in Kafka’s Era
	3. Kafka, Pictures, and Perception: Overview
	4. Problems of Pictorialist Conceptions of Vision, the Imagination, Language, and Consciousness
	5. Recognising the Problems of Pictures
	6. Kafka’s Enactivist Solutions to the Pictorialist Problems
3 Kafka’s Poetics of Perception in Der Proceß
	1. Non-Pictorial Evocation of Perception
	2. Linguistic Means of Engaging the Reader
	3. Evoking the Fallibility of Non-Pictorial Perception
	4. The Impossibility of Linear Narratives
4 Feeling from New Perspectives
	1. Emotion in Kafka
	2. Emotion in Literary Studies
	3. Enactive Emotion
	4. (Emotional) Engagement with Others
	5. Reflection
	6. Emotion, Action, and Perspective
	7. Character, Self, Emotion, Action, and Perspective
Conclusion: Cognitive Realism in Kafka and Beyond
Appendices
	1. Empirical Study: Readers’ Responses to “Schakale und Araber” (Jackals and Arabs)
	2. Empirical Study: Readers’ Responses to Das Schloß (The Castle)
Bibliography
Index