Given this backdrop, we can now introduce the discipline of “cognitive environment criticism” as a branch of critical scholarship. Critical scholarship as a whole represents an attempt to bring scientific rigor and thereby a putative objectivity to an interpretation of a text by recovering the historical, literary, and cultural world behind the text as a means to unravel the layers that have brought it to its current state. “Cognitive environment criticism” specifically focuses on the cultural element. It includes both background/cultural studies and comparative studies.
