'Dim-conceived glories of the brain': On Ambiguity in Literature and Science
'Dim-conceived glories of the brain': On Ambiguity in Literature and Science
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“大脑的模糊构想的荣耀”：论文学和科学中的模糊性
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10.1080/14735784.2012.752194
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2012
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Otty L
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本文探讨的理论问题提出的经验美学和认知文学理论-新的领域，试图弥合人文和科学之间的鸿沟。它源于“诗歌超越文本：视觉，文本和认知”，一个由英国艺术和人文研究理事会资助的研究项目。歧义概念在文学研究中有着悠久的历史，近年来引起了神经学和认知学对文学艺术研究的关注。本文提出了一种从相对被动的审美过程到积极的生成过程的转变，即歧义在诗歌创作中发挥作用。本文追溯了审美自主性思想对科学与艺术历史两极分化的影响，并指出浪漫主义美学和现代主义意识形态在构建模糊的主观文学语言与理性的客观科学分析之间的二元对立中所起的作用。它考虑了这些想法如何发挥出的文学理论的威廉Empson和我。A.理查兹、萨米尔·泽基的经验主义美学和萨文·楚尔的认知主义文学理论。济慈著名的“消极能力”思想，结合安德鲁·鲍伊（Andrew Bowie）对真理的分析和解释学概念的区分，引发了对“认知融合”的讨论，马克·特纳（Mark Turner）和吉勒·福科尼尔（Gilles Fauconnier）认为这是人类大脑中的一种进化适应，允许大量信息的概念整合。这一理论支持积极评价模糊性，将其作为科学和艺术中创造性思维的组成部分。
This article explores theoretical issues raised by empirical aesthetics and cognitive literary theory – new fields which attempt to bridge the divide between the humanities and the sciences. It arises from ‘Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition’, a research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The discussion focuses on the concept of ambiguity, which has a rich history in literary studies and has recently attracted attention in neurological and cognitive approaches to literature and art. A shift is proposed from a conception of ambiguity in terms of a relatively passive process of aesthesis to one in which ambiguity plays a role in an active, generative process of poesis. Tracing the influence of ideas of aesthetic autonomy on the historical polarization of science and art, the article draws attention to the role of Romantic aesthetics and the ideologies of modernism in constructing a binary between ambiguous, subjective literary language and rational, objective scientific analysis. It considers how such ideas play out in the literary theory of William Empson and I. A. Richards, the empirical aesthetics of Samir Zeki and Reuven Tsur's cognitive literary theory. Keats's famous idea of ‘negative capability’ is deployed, in combination with Andrew Bowie's distinction between analytic and hermeneutic conceptions of truth, to lead into a discussion of ‘cognitive blending’, conceived by Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier as an evolutionary adaptation in the human brain allowing the conceptual integration of huge amounts of information. This theory supports a positive valorization of ambiguity as integral to creative thought in both science and art.