Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series – serie
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Your Brain on Latino Comics
From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez
Häftad, 2009
363 kr
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Though the field of comic book studies has burgeoned in recent years, Latino characters and creators have received little attention. Putting the spotlight on this vibrant segment, Your Brain on Latino Comics illuminates the world of superheroes Firebird, Vibe, and the new Blue Beetle while also …
Understanding Indian Movies
Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination
Häftad, 2008
349 kr
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Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world, in part for cultural reasons. In this book, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out through close analysis and …
Multicultural Comics
From Zap to Blue Beetle
Inbunden, 2010
688 kr
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Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling …
Neural Imagination
Aesthetic and Neuroscientific Approaches to the Arts
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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Art and technology have been converging rapidly in the past few years; an important example of this convergence is the alliance of neuroscience with aesthetics, which has produced the new field of neuroaesthetics. Irving Massey examines this alliance, in large part to allay the fears of artists and …
Literature, Analytically Speaking
Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution
Häftad, 2010
317 kr
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In a new approach to interdisciplinary literary theory, Literature, Analytically Speaking integrates literary studies with analytic aesthetics, girded by neo-Darwinian evolution. Scrutinizing narrative fiction through a lens provided by analytic philosophy, revered literary theorist Peter Swirski …
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
Häftad, 2010
414 kr
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Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply …
Multicultural Comics
From Zap to Blue Beetle
Häftad, 2010
302 kr
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Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling …
Of Space and Mind
Cognitive Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction
Häftad, 2011
317 kr
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Chicano/a fiction is often understood as a literature of resistance to the dominant U.S. Anglo culture and society. But reducing this rich literary production to a single, binary opposition distorts it in fundamental ways. It conflates literature with life, potentially substituting a literature of …
Analyzing World Fiction
New Horizons in Narrative Theory
Häftad, 2011
414 kr
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Why are many readers drawn to stories that texture ethnic experiences and identities other than their own? How do authors such as Salman Rushdie and Maxine Hong Kingston, or filmmakers in Bollywood or Mexico City produce complex fiction that satisfies audiences worldwide? In Analyzing World …
Cognitive Literary Studies
Current Themes and New Directions
Av Isabel Jaén, Julien Jacques Simon
Häftad, 2012
349 kr
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, our understanding of the cognition of literature was transformed by scientific discoveries, such as the mirror neuron system and its role in empathy. Addressing questions such as why we care so deeply about fictional characters, what brain activities …
Literature and Social Justice
Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, and Schema Criticism
Av Mark Bracher
Häftad, 2013
445 kr
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Can reading social protest novels actually produce a more just world? Literature and Social Justice offers a scientifically informed, evidence-based affirmative answer to that crucial question, arguing that literature has the potential—albeit largely unrealized—to produce lasting, socially …
On Anger
Race, Cognition, Narrative
Av Sue J. Kim
Häftad, 2013
316 kr
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Anger is an emotion that affects everyone regardless of culture, class, race, or gender-but at the same time, being angry always results from the circumstances in which people find themselves. In On Anger, Sue J. Kim opens a stimulating dialogue between cognitive studies and cultural studies to …
Cosmopolitan Minds
Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination
Häftad, 2015
316 kr
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During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers-Kay Boyle, Pearl S. Buck, William Gardner Smith, Richard …
Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism
Häftad, 2015
297 kr
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A unique contribution to film studies, Richard Gordon’s Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism is the first full-length book on Brazilian films about slavery. By studying Brazilian films released between 1976 and 2005, Gordon examines how the films both define the national community and …
