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The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture

Volume 1: The Birth of Expectation

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  • © 1989

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  1. Don LePan
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Issue of Cognitive Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Anthropological Perspectives

      • Don LePan
      Pages 3-24

    3. Historical Perspectives

      • Don LePan
      Pages 25-46

    4. Literary Perspectives

      • Don LePan
      Pages 47-69

  3. The Roots of Expectation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Expectation

      • Don LePan
      Pages 73-81

    3. The Dawn of the Artificial Day: Medieval Temporal Thought Processes

      • Don LePan
      Pages 82-112

    4. Thinking across the Past

      • Don LePan
      Pages 113-130

    5. Thinking into the Future

      • Don LePan
      Pages 131-147

    6. Causation and Probability

      • Don LePan
      Pages 148-170

  4. Literary Expectations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Expectation and Literary Plots

      • Don LePan
      Pages 173-182

    3. The Ways of Thought of Medieval Literature

      • Don LePan
      Pages 183-234

    4. Shakespeare and the Revolution in Literary Plotting

      • Don LePan
      Pages 235-249

    5. Illusion: Expectation’s Dramatic By-product

      • Don LePan
      Pages 250-279

    6. Simon Forman’s Expectations

      • Don LePan
      Pages 280-302

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 303-370
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About this book

LePan challenges the assumption that everybody thinks in the same way by examining a particular mental faculty - expectation. He concludes that certain forms of expectation did not exist in the minds of most medieval people, any more than they do in children or adults in many primitive societies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 1: The Birth of Expectation

  • Authors: Don LePan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09988-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Don LePan 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-09990-0Published: 01 January 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-09988-7Published: 18 June 1989

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 370

  • Topics: Anthropology, Cultural Studies

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