Literary Universals
Modeled on the study of linguistic universals, the Literary Universals Project has two specific purposes. First, it should facilitate access to established work on literary universals, which has otherwise been scattered. Second, it should foster the advancement of further research on literary universals. These specific purposes should in turn contribute to our more general knowledge about literature and, ultimately, our understanding of the human mind and human society.
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University of Connecticut
Department of English
215 Glenbrook Road, U-4025
Storrs, CT 06269-4025
Department of English
215 Glenbrook Road, U-4025
Storrs, CT 06269-4025
Recent Articles
- Embodiment and UniversalsVittorio Gallese, University of Parma, Italy, and University of London, UK, and Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski, University of Texas at Austin, USA, with Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut, USA PCH: It’s a great honor to be able to speak about literary universals with one of the most important neuroscientists working today and with an innovative, cognitive literary […]
- Common Objections to (and Misunderstandings of) Literary UniversalsZachary Norwood, Valparaiso University “To suggest that there are no universals—that they are flatus vocis—is to endanger our uniqueness.” —Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature 43) The term “literary universals,” when not properly understood, can sound pejorative and theoretically dubious: whatever could be universal about literature, one of the most—if not the […]
- Comments on Keen: Universal Principles versus UniformityPatrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut Suzanne Keen is perhaps the world’s foremost expert on empathy and literature. As such, and also as a feminist and even as a human being aware of the world around her, she is deeply sensitive to the implausibility of claims that people’s empathic responses are all the same. In […]