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The Literary Mind
Mark Turner
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Description for The Literary Mind
Paperback. Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought.
Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought.
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
198
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
261g
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195126679
SKU
V9780195126679
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About Mark Turner
Mark Turner is Professor of English and an affiliate of the Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Maryland. He has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1996-97, he is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Reviews for The Literary Mind
A garden of many delights to be enjoyed by literary and scientific minds? An elegant bridge between two worlds? Other mixed (blended) metaphors apply to this book provided they tell the reader that this is an intelligent text, equally valuable to literary scholars and cognitive scientists.
Antonio R. Damasio, Professor of Neurology, University of Iowa, and author of Descartes' Error
Turner's forceful book starts by showing how we use storying and metaphor to understand everything from pouring a cup of coffee to Proust. It ends with the splendidly bold claim that this storying, literary mind comes first, before all other kinds of thought, even language itself. Adventurous and convincing, Turner's work launches a new understanding, not only of literature, but of what it is to have a human brain. To read it is to think about thinking in a way you never have.
Norman N. Holland, Marston-Milbauer Professor of English, University of Florida
Outstanding. This book will be a marvellous way for people to get into cognitive science.
Suzanne E. Kemmer, Professor of Linguistics, Rice University
An incredibly rich overview of Turner's newest ideas, offering scholars in both the humanities and cognitive sciences an excellent tutorial on the literary mind.
Raymond Gibbs, Jr., Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Antonio R. Damasio, Professor of Neurology, University of Iowa, and author of Descartes' Error
Turner's forceful book starts by showing how we use storying and metaphor to understand everything from pouring a cup of coffee to Proust. It ends with the splendidly bold claim that this storying, literary mind comes first, before all other kinds of thought, even language itself. Adventurous and convincing, Turner's work launches a new understanding, not only of literature, but of what it is to have a human brain. To read it is to think about thinking in a way you never have.
Norman N. Holland, Marston-Milbauer Professor of English, University of Florida
Outstanding. This book will be a marvellous way for people to get into cognitive science.
Suzanne E. Kemmer, Professor of Linguistics, Rice University
An incredibly rich overview of Turner's newest ideas, offering scholars in both the humanities and cognitive sciences an excellent tutorial on the literary mind.
Raymond Gibbs, Jr., Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz