How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art
Author:   Paul B. Armstrong
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:  

9781421410029


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   10 November 2013
Recommended Age:   From 17
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Paul B. Armstrong
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781421410029


ISBN 10:   1421410028
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   10 November 2013
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. The Brain and Aesthetic Experience 2. How the Brain Learns to Read and the Play of Harmony and Dissonance 3. The Neuroscience of the Hermeneutic Circle 4. The Temporality of Reading and the Decentered Brain 5. The Social Brain and the Paradox of the Alter Ego Epilogue Notes Index

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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


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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.

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