The Style of Gestures - Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative

Informationen zum Autor Guillemette Bolens is a professor of English literature at the University of Geneva and author of the award-winning La Logique du corps articulaire: Les articulations du corps humain dans la littérature occidentale . Klappentext With a foreword by well-known neuroscientist Alain Berthoz, The Style of Gestures convincingly makes the case that embodied cognition is essential to the reception, understanding, and enjoyment of art and literature. What is remarkable about The Style of Gestures... is that it combines a precisely grounded model from neuroscience with persuasive readings of texts across a wide historical range, from medieval works such as Gawain and the Green Knight via Shakespeare and Milton to Joyce and Proust. Guillemette Bolens is a medievalist and a comparatist, and she is always sensitive to the cultural constraints within which her readings must operate: no one could accuse her of reductive universalism or anachronism. Her work thus provides a powerful and persuasive example of what a cognitive literary criticism can achieve. -- Terence Cave Times Literary Supplement 2013 Zusammenfassung With a foreword by well-known neuroscientist Alain Berthoz! The Style of Gestures convincingly makes the case that embodied cognition is essential to the reception! understanding! and enjoyment of art and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Guillemette Bolens, Guillemette (Professor Bolens, Guillemette/ Berthoz Bolens
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2012
• EAN: 9781421405186
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0518-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Rethinking Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology