The Cognitive Humanities - Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book identifies the 'cognitive humanities' with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representation-a Cartesian inner theatre-than as a form of embodied action, how might cultural representation be rethought? What can literature and culture reveal or challenge about embodied minds? The essays in this book ask what new directions in the humanities open up when the thinking self is understood as a participant in contexts of action, even as extended beyond the skin. Building on cognitive literary studies, but engaging much more extensively with '4E' cognitive science (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) than previously, the book uses case studies from many different historical settings (such as early modern theatre and digital technologies) and in different media (narrative, art, performance) to explore the embodied mind through culture.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Peter Garratt
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	259
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-59328-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-137-59328-8
Barcode:	9781137593283

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