The Neural Sublime

Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts

Alan Richardson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2010
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-9453-4 (ISBN)

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The Neural Sublime brings recent work in cognitive neuroscience to bear on some famously vexed issues in British Romantic studies. In exciting and unprecedented ways, Alan Richardson demonstrates how developments in the neurosciences can transform the study of literary history. Richardson presents six exemplary studies, each exploring a different intersection of Romanticism and the sciences of the mind and brain: the experience of the sublime and the neuroscience of illusion; the Romantic imagination and visual imaging; the figure of apostrophe and linguistic theory; fictional representations of the mind and "theory of mind" theory; depictions of sibling incest and neo-Darwinian theories of mental behavior; and representations of female speech and cognitive developmental psychology. Richardson's insightful analysis opens fresh perspectives on British Romanticism, pointing scholars to new developments in cognitive literary studies. He combines elements of new historicist analysis with original-and much-needed-models for understanding language, subjectivity, and social behavior.
Far from signaling a departure from the prevalent critical approaches of new historicism, Richardson argues, cognitive theory presents an essential complement to them. The Neural Sublime features an array of cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, providing an engaging and readable introduction to the emergent field of cognitive literary studies.

Alan Richardson is a professor of English at Boston College, author of British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind, and coeditor of The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity.

Preface
1. Introduction: Cognitive Historicism
2. The Neural Sublime
3. The Romantic Image, the Mind's Eye, and the History of the Senses
4. Romantic Apostrophe: Everyday Discourse, Overhearing, and Poetic Address
5. Reading Minds—and Bodies—in Emma
6. Romantic Incest: Literary Representation and the Biology of Mind
7. Language Strange: Motherese, the Semiotic, and Romantic Poetry
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.8.2010
Zusatzinfo	4 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8018-9453-0 / 0801894530
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-9453-4 / 9780801894534
Zustand	Neuware