How Literature Plays With the Brain - The Neuroscience of Reading and Art

Informationen zum Autor Paul B. Armstrong is a professor of English at Brown University. He is author of several books, including Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation and Play and The Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form. Klappentext Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For critics and students of literature, this book engages fundamental questions within the humanities: What is aesthetic experience? What happens when we read a literary work? How does the interpretation of literature relate to other ways of knowing? Zusammenfassung Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For critics and students of literature, this book engages fundamental questions within the humanities: What is aesthetic experience? What happens when we read a literary work? How does the interpretation of literature relate to other ways of knowing?

Product details

• Authors: Paul B Armstrong, Paul B. Armstrong
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9781421410029
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1002-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies