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How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art
Paul B. Armstrong
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Description for How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art
Paperback. Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For the neuroscientific community, this book 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. Num Pages: 240 pages, 23, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; GTR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
Literature matters, says Paul B. Armstrong, for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story. In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. His central argument is that literature plays with the brain through experiences of harmony and dissonance which set in motion oppositions that are fundamental to the neurobiology of mental functioning. These oppositions negotiate basic tensions in the operation of the brain between the drive for ... Read more
Literature matters, says Paul B. Armstrong, for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story. In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. His central argument is that literature plays with the brain through experiences of harmony and dissonance which set in motion oppositions that are fundamental to the neurobiology of mental functioning. These oppositions negotiate basic tensions in the operation of the brain between the drive for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
343g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421415765
SKU
V9781421415765
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About Paul B. Armstrong
Paul B. Armstrong is a professor of English at Brown University. He is the 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.
Reviews for How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art
Armstrong's book is a testament to the value of the arts and the humanities since their processes and productions generate ideas that are literally the physical (neurobiological) stuff of which we are made.
Gregory F. Tague
ASEBL Journal
How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art is a highly informative and carefully argued ... Read more
Gregory F. Tague
ASEBL Journal
How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art is a highly informative and carefully argued ... Read more