How literature plays with the brain : the neuroscience of reading and art / Paul B. Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading, Psychology of.

Psychology and literature.

Neurosciences and the arts.

Literature--Psychology.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the neuroscientific community, the study suggests that different areas of research--the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions--may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. For critics and students of literature, the study 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?.

Contents:

Preface

The brain and aesthetic experience

How the brain learns to read and the play of harmony and dissonance

The neuroscience of the hermeneutic circle

The temporality of reading and the de-centered brain

The social brain and the paradox of the alter ego

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4214-1003-6

OCLC:

855534540