| 总结: | The ‘<strong>cognitive realism</strong>' of <strong>memory</strong> in <strong><em>Madame Bovary</em></strong> is investigated by means of relevant research in the <strong>cognitive sciences</strong>, drawing conclusions which complement those of traditional literary criticism. In particular, Emma Bovary's memory is elucidated with reference to <strong>cognitive-dissonance theory</strong>: the human need for coherence between memory and self-image renders the trajectory of her married life psychologically explicable. The findings help account for critics' ambivalent or contradictory responses to Emma's story, and yield hypotheses concerning <strong>readers' responses</strong> more generally. They also suggest conclusions regarding the disjuncture between literary <strong>Realism</strong> (which corresponds to our assumptions about cognition) and cognitive realism (which corresponds to the underlying cognitive realities).
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