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Initially received with muted applause, Darwin's The Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection was soon recognized as the
breakthrough scientific advance that explained the evidence of the
world around us, the place and history of humans, the connections
between environment and evolution. Still regarded by some as
radical, Darwin's contribution to world knowledge is immeasurable.
This new, popular edition has been edited and abridged for the
modern reader, to introduce Darwin's research in a digestible form.
The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which
together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world,
with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to
be both accessible and informative.
An era marked by sweeping change, the age of Queen Victoria was a
time of rapid modernization as well as social and political
upheaval, which is reflected in its literature. Bridging the gap
between the Romantic and Modern traditions, Victorian writers held
a mirror to society, chronicling the tensions between the
prosperity enjoyed by a few, and the poverty and suffering endured
by so many. Filled with captivating stories by the most iconic
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James, and Elizabeth Gaskell) this collection is a fitting
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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.
This collection brings together verses that mark the last moments
of life, the passing of one stage to another. At a time of grief,
we often search for the right words to say, words which will help
us come to terms with death, with loss and with the fear of what
comes next. The poems and readings in this collection gather
together beautiful, lyrical, insightful writings on death, grieving
and healing by poets including Christina Rossetti, John Donne,
Emily Dickinson and John Keats. A source of comfort, solace and
fortitude.
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading
breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of
historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all
its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a
transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of
Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siecle Aesthetics,
American Poetics and the Postcolonial Novel, this book offers the
first transhistorical study of breath in literature. At the same
time, it shows how the study of breath in literature can contribute
to recent developments in the Medical Humanities.
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.
This book brings together 11 essays by international specialists in
Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and
period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the
cognitive humanities. The essays revitalise our reading of
Victorian and modernist works in the fields of history of
technology, science and medicine, material culture, philosophy, art
and literary studies by bringing to bear recent insights in
cognitive science and philosophy of mind on the ways in which
cognition is distributed across brain, body and world.
Initially received with muted applause, Darwin's The Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection was soon recognised as the
breakthrough scientific advance that explained the evidence of the
world around us, the place and history of humans, the connections
between environment and evolution. Still regarded by some as
radical, Darwin's contribution to world knowledge is immeasurable.
FLAME TREE's Great Works That Shape Our World is a new series of
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From the ancient wisdom of the Mahabharata to the curious power of
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Dick, from the scientific wonders of Isaac Newton and Albert
Einstein to the great thinkers of Western and Asian philosophy.
Created to entertain, inform and enrich, the new series brings
infinite variety to refresh the mind, presented in beautiful
editions for the modern market. Each book features a new,
accessible introduction, specially written for these editions,
placing the book in context both as part of the new series, and
highlighting its special contribution to the advancement of human
understanding; they examine the significance of each work, their
impact at time of publication, and their influence today.
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