Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies argues
that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least
implicitly, on outdated linguistic and psychological models such as
post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and behaviorism, which significantly
contradict current dominant scientific views. By contrast, this
monograph promotes an alternative paradigm for literary studies, namely
Contextualism, and in so doing highlights the similarities and
differences among the sometimes-conflicting contemporary cognitive
approaches to literature and performance, arguing not in favor of one
over the other but for Contextualism as their common ground.