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Cognitive aspects of literature

The article presentes theoretical questions to be further developed in future research about the cognitive aspects of literature. The author considers the literary text to have a specific cognitive function that differs from the conceptual and abstract thinking and offers to the readership models for human actions and for the perception of the world.

Literature; Cognition; Theory of Literature


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