How literature plays with the brain: the neuroscience of reading and art
Editorial JOHNS HOPKINS U.P.
Festland Spanien
- Verlag JOHNS HOPKINS U.P.
- ISBN13 9781421415765
- ISBN10 1421415763
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 221
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2014
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden
Abschnitte
Philosophie Des GeistesHow literature plays with the brain: the neuroscience of reading and art
Editorial JOHNS HOPKINS U.P.
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Armstrong’s book is a testament to the value of the arts and the humanities since their processes and productions generate ideas that are literally the physical (neurobiological) stuff of which we are made.
(Gregory F. Tague ASEBL Journal)How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art is a highly informative and carefully argued book. We recommend a close reading of it.
(Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations)Armstrong explores the ways that neuroscience and literary theory can be mutually illuminating about the processes of reading and about the aesthetics of literary response. He makes explicit some of the most vital, yet heretofore overlooked, connections between the aims of literary criticism and cognitive neuroscience. There are wonderful insights in How Literature Plays with the Brain, and it is clearly the work of a strong critic who is well educated on both sides of the science-humanities divide.
(G. Gabrielle Starr, New York University)