The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
Literature and neuroscience come together to illuminate the human experience of beauty, which unfolds in time. How does beauty exist in time? This is Gabrielle Starr’s central concern in Just in Time as she explores the experience of beauty ...
Eighteenth-century British literary history is traditionally characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements: the rise of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres a...
Feeling Beauty, however, is distinctive in both presenting new research on the regions of the brain activated by intense aesthetic responses and suggesting the ways in which this research might open up a new, dynamic understanding of aesthetics. -Modern Philology Feeling Beauty by G. Gabrielle Starr is an elegantly written (lucid and even literary) examination of the neurobiology of aesthetic experience crossing poetry, visual art, and music. -Consciousness, Literature and the Arts An ambitious text...exciting as it is timely...Feeling Beauty is at its best when Starr is engaged in close reading leading the reader step by step through a careful explanation and elucidation of a body of text with the aid of her model...clear, legible, and, frankly, a delight to read. -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
G. Gabrielle Starr is Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science and Professor of English at New York University.