Distraction - Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Informationen zum Autor Natalie M. Phillips is an assistant professor of English at Michigan State University, where she is an affiliated faculty member of the cognitive science program and the cofounder of the Digital Humanities & Literary Cognition Lab. Klappentext She draws a direct link between the disparate theories of focus articulated in eighteenth-century literature and modern experiments in neuroscience, revealing that contemporary questions surrounding short attention spans are grounded in long conversations over the nature and limits of focus. Zusammenfassung She draws a direct link between the disparate theories of focus articulated in eighteenth-century literature and modern experiments in neuroscience! revealing that contemporary questions surrounding short attention spans are grounded in long conversations over the nature and limits of focus.

Product details

• Authors: Natalie M Phillips, Natalie M. Phillips, Natalie M. (Michigan State University) Phillips
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781421420127
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2012-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literature: history and criticism