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Mind the Text! Neurohermeneutics for Suspicious Readers

Author : Renata Gambino
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1036407616
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Mind the Text! Neurohermeneutics for Suspicious Readers written by Renata Gambino and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the convergence of human studies, biocultural and neuroscientific research, this book offers unprecedented insights into the interpretation of literary texts. It presents the neurohermeneutics of suspicion—a bold, innovative approach illuminating the intricate bond between literature and the human mind. Embracing ambiguity as a hallmark of literature, readers are encouraged to adopt a suspicious stance to unearth the complex, multilayered and dynamic nature of literary texts, thereby fully engaging their imagination and their embodied, emotional and imaginative faculties. Our exploration navigates the crossroads of language, thought, culture, and biology, delving into hidden layers of meaning within literary texts. This transformative exploration not only redefines literary scholarship but also offers lay readers a dynamic, immersive reading experience. Ultimately, this book aims to ignite curiosity, suspense, and surprise, transforming the act of reading into a creative and engaging journey through the depths of the human mind and aesthetic experiences.

MIND THE TEXT! NEUROHERMENEUTICS FOR SUSPICIOUS READERS.

Author : RENATA. PULVIRENTI GAMBINO (GRAZIA.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781036407605
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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The Aesthetic Brain

Author : Anjan Chatterjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199811806
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetic Brain written by Anjan Chatterjee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all.

Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

Author : Alison Scott-Baumann
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441179380
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion written by Alison Scott-Baumann and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. In his enormous corpus of work he engaged with literature, history, historiography, politics, theology and ethics, while debating 'truth' and ethical solutions to life in the face of widespread and growing suspicion about whether such a search is either possible or worthwhile. In Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion, Alison Scott-Baumann takes a thematic approach that explores Ricoeur's lifelong struggle to be both iconoclastic and yet hopeful, and avoid the slippery slope to relativism. Through an examination of the 'hermeneutics of suspicion', the book reveals strong continuities throughout his work, as well as significant discontinuities, such as the marked way in which he later distanced himself from the 'hermeneutics of suspicion' and his development of new devices in its place, while seeking a hermeneutics of recovery. Scott-Baumann offers a highly original analysis of the hermeneutics of suspicion that will be useful to the fields of philosophy, literature, theology and postmodern social theory.

Splendors and Miseries of the Brain

Author : Semir Zeki
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444359479
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Splendors and Miseries of the Brain written by Semir Zeki and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splendors and Miseries of the Brain examines the elegant and efficient machinery of the brain, showing that by studying music, art, literature, and love, we can reach important conclusions about how the brain functions. discusses creativity and the search for perfection in the brain examines the power of the unfinished and why it has such a powerful hold on the imagination discusses Platonic concepts in light of the brain shows that aesthetic theories are best understood in terms of the brain discusses the inherited concept of unity-in-love using evidence derived from the world literature of love addresses the role of the synthetic concept in the brain (the synthesis of many experiences) in relation to art, using examples taken from the work of Michelangelo, Cézanne, Balzac, Dante, and others

A Vision of the Brain

Author : Semir Zeki
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781444314007
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book A Vision of the Brain written by Semir Zeki and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Authored by one of the world's foremost authorities on the biology of the brain. * Illustrated in two colours throughout. * Contains a section of full-colour graphics. * A benchmark text for students and researchers alike. .

Inferences during Reading

Author : Edward J. O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131629904X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Inferences during Reading written by Edward J. O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inferencing is defined as 'the act of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true', and it is one of the most important processes necessary for successful comprehension during reading. This volume features contributions by distinguished researchers in cognitive psychology, educational psychology, and neuroscience on topics central to our understanding of the inferential process during reading. The chapters cover aspects of inferencing that range from the fundamental bottom-up processes that form the basis for an inference to occur, to the more strategic processes that transpire when a reader is engaged in literary understanding of a text. Basic activation mechanisms, word-level inferencing, methodological considerations, inference validation, causal inferencing, emotion, development of inferences processes as a skill, embodiment, contributions from neuroscience, and applications to naturalistic text are all covered as well as expository text, online learning materials, and literary immersion.

Rationalizing Culture

Author : Georgina Born
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520202163
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Rationalizing Culture written by Georgina Born and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-09-08 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. She gives a unique portrait of IRCAM's composers, computer scientists, technicians, and secretaries, interrogating the effects of the cultural philosophy of the controversial avant-garde composer, Pierre Boulez, who directed the institute until 1992.

Life in Oil

Author : Michael L. Cepek
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147731508X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Life in Oil written by Michael L. Cepek and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil is one of the world’s most important commodities, but few people know how its extraction affects the residents of petroleum-producing regions. In the 1960s, the Texaco corporation discovered crude in the territory of Ecuador’s indigenous Cofán nation. Within a decade, Ecuador had become a member of OPEC, and the Cofán watched as their forests fell, their rivers ran black, and their bodies succumbed to new illnesses. In 1993, they became plaintiffs in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit that aims to compensate them for the losses they have suffered. Yet even in the midst of a tragic toxic disaster, the Cofán have refused to be destroyed. While seeking reparations for oil’s assault on their lives, they remain committed to the survival of their language, culture, and rainforest homeland. Life in Oil presents the compelling, nuanced story of how the Cofán manage to endure at the center of Ecuadorian petroleum extraction. Michael L. Cepek has lived and worked with Cofán people for more than twenty years. In this highly accessible book, he goes well beyond popular and academic accounts of their suffering to share the largely unknown stories that Cofán people themselves create—the ones they tell in their own language, in their own communities, and to one another and the few outsiders they know and trust. Their words reveal that life in oil is a form of slow, confusing violence for some of the earth’s most marginalized, yet resilient, inhabitants.

Josefu's Thousand Hills

Author : Tamara Dragadze
Publisher : Whyte Tracks
ISBN 13 : 9788792632395
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Josefu's Thousand Hills written by Tamara Dragadze and published by Whyte Tracks. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josefu Mutesa leads a quiet life in Banff where he part owns a bookshop and with the help of friends is slowly recovering. He had been in Rwanda, Land of the Thousand Hills in 1994 as a UN official during the aftermath of the genocide to report the events that had occurred there. The magnitude of political treachery and human betrayal caused him to break down and he was evacuated to Canada. Now, some years later, Josefu receives a long distance call that jolts him from his numbed existence. He decides to drive the Trans Canada highway to Winnipeg to visit friends and uses the trip to try to remember his time in Rwanda and face his demons. Crossing the prairies accompanied by ghosts that demand their stories be heard, he embarks on a parallel journey between time and place that is both exhiliarating and harrowing. Occasionally the two seem to merge. This is his story.

Cognitive Literary Science

Author : Michael Burke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190643072
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Literary Science written by Michael Burke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together researchers with cognitive-scientific and literary backgrounds to present innovative research in all three variations on the possible interactions between literary studies and cognitive science. The tripartite structure of the volume reflects a more ambitious conception of what cognitive approaches to literature are and could be than is usually encountered, and thus aims both to map out and to advance the field. The first section corresponds to what most people think of as "cognitive poetics" or "cognitive literary studies": the study of literature by literary scholars drawing on cognitive-scientific methods, findings, and/or debates to yield insights into literature. The second section demonstrates that literary scholars needn't only make use of cognitive science to study literature, but can also, in a reciprocally interdisciplinary manner, use a cognitively informed perspective on literature to offer benefits back to the cognitive sciences. Finally, the third section, "literature in cognitive science", showcases some of the ways in which literature can be a stimulating object of study and a fertile testing ground for theories and models, not only to literary scholars but also to cognitive scientists, who here engage with some key questions in cognitive literary studies with the benefit of their in-depth scientific knowledge and training.

The Noise of Culture

Author : William Paulson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501742914
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Noise of Culture written by William Paulson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Paulson believes that as contemporary science extends its influence over areas of thought that have long been the province of the humanities, scholars in literary disciplines may suffer for their lack of contact with work in the sciences of mind and information. In The Noise of Culture, he speculates on the role of literature in the post-literary culture of the information age and proposes a vital reorientation of the study of literature, both affirming its specificity and exploring its developing relationship with modem science. Paulson discusses literature in the context of information theory, particularly the theory of self-organizing and autonomous systems. Reviewing and building upon the work of such thinkers as Michel Serres, Henri Atlan, Francisco Varela, and Judith Schlanger, Paulson offers a new kind of conceptual vocabulary for literary theory. He concludes that literature functions as the noise of culture, a source of variety in the circulation and production of ideas and a rich and indeterminate margin through which messages are sent and transformed.

Kwaito's Promise

Author : Gavin Steingo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022636268X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Kwaito's Promise written by Gavin Steingo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country’s urban black youth developed kwaito—a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it has developed alongside the democratization of South Africa over the past two decades. Tracking the fall of South African hope into the disenchantment that often characterizes the outlook of its youth today—who face high unemployment, extreme inequality, and widespread crime—Steingo looks to kwaito as a powerful tool that paradoxically engages South Africa’s crucial social and political problems by, in fact, seeming to ignore them. Politicians and cultural critics have long criticized kwaito for failing to provide any meaningful contribution to a society that desperately needs direction. As Steingo shows, however, these criticisms are built on problematic assumptions about the political function of music. Interacting with kwaito artists and fans, he shows that youth aren’t escaping their social condition through kwaito but rather using it to expand their sensory realities and generate new possibilities. Resisting the truism that “music is always political,” Steingo elucidates a music that thrives on its radically ambiguous relationship with politics, power, and the state.

Contextualized Stylistics

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004487395
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Contextualized Stylistics written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in Contextualized Stylistics, written especially to honour the work of Peter Verdonk, one of the leading figures in the field of stylistics over the last twenty years, represent the state of the art in literary linguistics. A wide range of approaches, from traditional stylistic analysis to innovative new directions, is to be found here in literary contexts as varied as the writings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Pope, Sterne, Browning, Yeats, Auden, Joyce, British surrealist poetry, urban and political graffiti, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jane Gardam, contemporary Anglo-Irish fiction, modern comic satire and Flann O'Brien. Among the contributors are some of the foremost theorists and practitioners working in the field today: Walter Nash, Peter Stockwell, Willie van Peer, Keith Green, Tony Bex, Michael Burke, Mick Short, Jonathan Culpeper, Elena Semino, Michael Toolan, Jean-Jacques Weber, Gerard Steen, Henry Widdowson, and Paul Simpson. Olga Fischer and Katie Wales contribute a Foreword, and Ronald Carter an Afterword. A number of Professor Verdonk's colleagues have also contributed articles from a more literary perspective. This book is an essential addition to the personal library of any researcher interested in the interface and connections between language and literature, and it would make an excellent course reader for undergraduate students in both literary and linguistic studies.

Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

Author : Michael Burke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136890645
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion written by Michael Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and especially about the role that emotion plays. Burk’s theoretical and empirical study focuses on three central issues: the role emotions play in a core cognitive event like literary text processing; the kinds of bottom-up and top-down inputs most prominently involved in the literary reading process; and what might be happening in the minds and bodies of engaged readers when they experience intense or heightened emotions: a phenomenon sometimes labelled "reader epiphany." This study postulates that there is a free-flow of bottom-up and top-down affective, cognitive inputs during the engaged act of literary reading, and that reading does not necessarily begin or end when our eyes apprehend the words on the page. Burke argues that the literary reading human mind might best be considered both figuratively and literally, not as computational or mechanical, but as oceanic.

Goldman and His Critics

Author : Brian P. McLaughlin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470673672
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Goldman and His Critics written by Brian P. McLaughlin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldman and His Critics presents a series of original essays contributed by influential philosophers who critically examine Alvin Goldman’s work, followed by Goldman’s responses to each essay. Critiques Alvin Goldman’s groundbreaking theories, writings, and ideas on a range of philosophical topics Features contributions from some of the most important and influential contemporary philosophers Covers Goldman’s views on epistemology—both individual and social—in addition to cognitive science and metaphysics Pays special attention to Goldman’s writings on philosophy of mind, including the evolution of his thoughts on Simulation-Theory (ST)

Mikidadi

Author : Pat Caplan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907774485
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Mikidadi written by Pat Caplan and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a teacher, charity leader, activist and guardian of extended family who lived through changes from colonialism to independence, socialism to neoliberalism, and local Swahili Islam to a more globalized form. Showing how historical processes impacted on Mikidadi, this counters recent rewritings of Tanzania's post-colonial history.