Dr. Marco BerniniPostdoctoral Fellow |
September 2011 - February 2012 | |
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Dr. Marco Bernini has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at IASH to work on a project entitled: “Fiction as a Cognitive Act: Narrative Theory and the Extended Mind” "My research interests are equally split between narrative theory, in particular cognitive narratology, and modernist fiction, notably the narrative work of Samuel Beckett. I merged these two lines of research during my PhD, working on how modernist novels stage cognitive processes. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at IASH, I am working on literary writing as a thinking process. Building on the recent cognitive theory of the “extended mind” (Clark and Chalmers 1998), I try to reframe narratological issues such as the relationship between form and content, the authorial intentionality, and the interpretative process, treating fictional writing as a cognitive act. After this first theoretical part, I’ll ground both cognitive and narrative theory on textual practice, instantiating my claims by analysing the narratives of great formal manipulators such as Joyce, Proust and Beckett, who, I suggest, have exploited more than others the cognitive potential of fictional written storytelling. At the same time, I am working on an introductory volume on cognitive approaches to literature co-authored with Marco Caracciolo and scheduled for publication in 2012 (Carocci: Roma)."
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