Neuro Lit Crit
31/03/2010View on timeline
For example, in 2010 “neuro lit crit” was presented as the “next big thing in English,” as “the cutting edge of literary studies,” and as an approach that might “save humanities” [...] Perhaps such claims generate among literary scholars a sense of “colonization” and “displacement.” However, even when those terms make sense, the bottom line has less to do with fears of oppression or suppression than with points 11 and 12 of our list, hierarchy and neglect.
As for hierarchy, the only feature that makes neuro lit crit “cutting edge” is the neuro label. The alliance with “science” moves literary studies closer to the top of the epistemic hierarchy—as if other methods provided no genuine insights, as if we hadn’t realized that reading literature may be worthwhile before brain-scanning technology existed, or as if assessments of cultural value could be brain based.
Below, you can read two articles mentioned by Vidal and Ortega:
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