Anthem Studies in Bibliotherapy and Well-Being – serie
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Literature and Transformation
A Narrative Study of Life-Changing Reading Experiences
Inbunden, 2020
1300 kr
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This book develops a method called intimate reading to investigate how ordinary readers are deeply moved by what they read, and the transformative impact such experiences have on their sense of self. The book presents unique narratives of such experiences and suggests a theory of transformative …
Rethinking Therapeutic Reading
Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot
Av Kelda Green
Inbunden, 2020
1516 kr
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‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces for personal thinking. It reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming …
Reading as a Philosophical Practice
Inbunden, 2020
1516 kr
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Reading as a Philosophical Practice asks why reading—everyday reading for pleasure—matters so profoundly to so many people. Its answer is that reading is an implicitly philosophical activity. To passionate readers, it is a way of working through, and taking a stand on, certain fundamental questions …
Reading to Stay Alive
Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence
Inbunden, 2022
1516 kr
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This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive. Written by an academic general practitioner with longstanding expertise in mental health, the book is grounded in the lived experience of patients, intertwined with perspectives from social psychology and …
Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in Literature
Av Nigel Fabb
Inbunden, 2022
1469 kr
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This book offers a psychological account of thrills (goosebumps and tears), of the epiphanic experience of seeing ordinary things in a profoundly new way, and of the experience of the sublime. The unifying characteristic of these ‘strong experiences’ is that they all begin with surprise. They are …
Rethinking Therapeutic Reading
Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot
Av Kelda Green
Häftad, 2022
486 kr
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‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces for personal thinking. It reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming …
Literature and Transformation
A Narrative Study of Life-Changing Reading Experiences
Häftad, 2022
416 kr
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This book develops a method called intimate reading to investigate how ordinary readers are deeply moved by what they read, and the transformative impact such experiences have on their sense of self. The book presents unique narratives of such experiences and suggests a theory of transformative …
Reading as a Philosophical Practice
Häftad, 2022
486 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Reading as a Philosophical Practice asks why reading—everyday reading for pleasure—matters so profoundly to so many people. Its answer is that reading is an implicitly philosophical activity. To passionate readers, it is a way of working through, and taking a stand on, certain fundamental questions …
Neurocomputational Poetics
How the Brain Processes Verbal Art
Inbunden, 2023
1244 kr
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This book introduces a new thrilling field: Neurocomputational Poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience. Its goal is to uncover the secrets of verbal art reception and to explain how readers come to understand and like literary texts. For …
On Reading the History of Philosophy
Inbunden, 2027
251 kr
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This is a book about what the historian of philosophy does when reading. It is a book, therefore, that attempts to catalogue the various types of thinking produced in and through the act of reading a philosophical tex). Since Descartes, the philosopher has been persistently imagined as someone who …
Reading to Stay Alive
Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence
Häftad, 2024
392 kr
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This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive. Written by an academic general practitioner with longstanding expertise in mental health, the book is grounded in the lived experience of patients, intertwined with perspectives from social psychology and …
Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in Literature
Av Nigel Fabb
Häftad, 2024
475 kr
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This book offers a psychological account of thrills (goosebumps and tears), of the epiphanic experience of seeing ordinary things in a profoundly new way, and of the experience of the sublime. The unifying characteristic of these ‘strong experiences’ is that they all begin with surprise. They are …
Neurocomputational Poetics
How the Brain Processes Verbal Art
Häftad, 2025
398 kr
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This book introduces a new thrilling field: Neurocomputational Poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience. Its goal is to uncover the secrets of verbal art reception and to explain how readers come to understand and like literary texts. For …
