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How Literature Plays with the Brain - The Neuroscience of Reading and Art (Paperback)
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How Literature Plays with the Brain - The Neuroscience of Reading and Art (Paperback)
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"Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals
about human experience, and the very different perspective of
neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How
Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels
between certain features of literary experience and functions of
the brain. His central argument is that literature plays with the
brain through experiences of harmony and dissonance which set in
motion oppositions that are fundamental to the neurobiology of
mental functioning. These oppositions negotiate basic tensions in
the operation of the brain between the drive for pattern,
synthesis, and constancy and the need for flexibility,
adaptability, and openness to change. The challenge, Armstrong
argues, is to account for the ability of readers to find
incommensurable meanings in the same text, for example, or to take
pleasure in art that is harmonious or dissonant, symmetrical or
distorted, unified or discontinuous and disruptive. How Literature
Plays with the Brain is the first book to use the resources of
neuroscience and phenomenology to analyze aesthetic experience. For
the neuroscientific community, the study suggests that different
areas of research - the neurobiology of vision and reading, the
brain-body interactions underlying emotions - may be connected to a
variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. For critics and
students of literature, the study engages fundamental questions
within the humanities: What is aesthetic experience? What happens
when we read a literary work? How does the interpretation of
literature relate to other ways of knowing?
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