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The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture
Peter Garratt (Ed.)
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Description for The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture
Hardback. Editor(s): Garratt, Peter. Num Pages: 259 pages, 4 colour illustrations, 4 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
This book identifies the `cognitive humanities' with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representation-a Cartesian inner theatre-than as a form of embodied action, how might cultural representation be rethought? What can literature and culture reveal or challenge about embodied minds? The essays in this book ask what new directions in the humanities open up when the thinking self is understood as a participant in contexts of action, even as extended ... Read more
This book identifies the `cognitive humanities' with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representation-a Cartesian inner theatre-than as a form of embodied action, how might cultural representation be rethought? What can literature and culture reveal or challenge about embodied minds? The essays in this book ask what new directions in the humanities open up when the thinking self is understood as a participant in contexts of action, even as extended ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
259
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137593283
SKU
V9781137593283
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99-15
About Peter Garratt (Ed.)
Peter Garratt is Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK. He is a specialist in nineteenth-century literature and culture, and has published on writers such as George Eliot, Dickens and Ruskin, and on topics in cognitive theory and the medical humanities. His first book, Victorian Empiricism, was published in 2010.
Reviews for The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture
The Cognitive Humanities is an edited collection of eleven essays from across the humanities, including literary studies, linguistics, theatre and performance studies, philosophy and history. ... this volume will absolutelty be of value to many medical humanities scholars ... . (Emma Seaber, Centre for Medical Humanities Durham University, centreformedicalhumanities.org, October, 2017)