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Bringing together neuroscientists, social scientists, and
humanities scholars in cross-disciplinary exploration of the topic
of cultural memory, this collection moves from seminal discussions
of the latest findings in neuroscience to variegated, specific case
studies of social practices and artistic expressions. This volume
highlights what can be gained from drawing on broad
interdisciplinary contexts in pursuing scholarly projects involving
cultural memory and associated topics. The collection argues that
contemporary evolutionary science, in conjunction with studies
interconnecting cognition, affect, and emotion, as well as research
on socially mediated memory, provides innovatively
interdisciplinary contexts for viewing current work on how cultural
and social environments influence gene expression and neural
circuitry. Building on this foundation, Cultural Memory turns to
the exploration of the psychological processes and social contexts
through which cultural memory is shaped, circulated, revised, and
contested. It investigates how various modes of cultural
expression-architecture, cuisine, poetry, film, and
fiction-reconfigure shared conceptualizing patterns and affectively
mediated articulations of identity and value. Each chapter
showcases research from a wide range of fields and presents diverse
interdisciplinary contexts for future scholarship. As cultural
memory is a subject that invites interdisciplinary perspectives and
is relevant to studying cultures around the world, of every era,
this collection addresses an international readership comprising
scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and natural
sciences, from advanced undergraduates to senior researchers.
Bringing together neuroscientists, social scientists, and
humanities scholars in cross-disciplinary exploration of the topic
of cultural memory, this collection moves from seminal discussions
of the latest findings in neuroscience to variegated, specific case
studies of social practices and artistic expressions. This volume
highlights what can be gained from drawing on broad
interdisciplinary contexts in pursuing scholarly projects involving
cultural memory and associated topics. The collection argues that
contemporary evolutionary science, in conjunction with studies
interconnecting cognition, affect, and emotion, as well as research
on socially mediated memory, provides innovatively
interdisciplinary contexts for viewing current work on how cultural
and social environments influence gene expression and neural
circuitry. Building on this foundation, Cultural Memory turns to
the exploration of the psychological processes and social contexts
through which cultural memory is shaped, circulated, revised, and
contested. It investigates how various modes of cultural
expression-architecture, cuisine, poetry, film, and
fiction-reconfigure shared conceptualizing patterns and affectively
mediated articulations of identity and value. Each chapter
showcases research from a wide range of fields and presents diverse
interdisciplinary contexts for future scholarship. As cultural
memory is a subject that invites interdisciplinary perspectives and
is relevant to studying cultures around the world, of every era,
this collection addresses an international readership comprising
scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and natural
sciences, from advanced undergraduates to senior researchers.
This book of essays is the first to probe Anais Nin's achievements
as a literary artist. With an introduction by the editor, Suzanne
Nalbantian, the collection examines the literary strategies of Nin
in their psychoanalytical and stylistic dimensions. Various
contributors scrutinize Nin's artistry, identifying her unique
modernist techniques and her poetic vision. Others observe the
transfer of her psychoanalytical positions to narrative. The volume
also contains fresh views of Nin by her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell
as well as innovative analyses of the reception of her works.
A comparative assessment of the transmutation of a decadent
mentality into an identifiable narrative style. The author examines
the work of five major novelists in the last quarter of the
nineteenth century - Dostoevsky, James, Zola, Hardy and Conrad, and
attempts to delve beneath the superficial dissimilarities to trace
perplexities, perversities and paradoxical combinations of excess
and insufficiency. Her own definition of decadence reflects these
characteristics. Suzanne Nalbantian is author of "The Symbol of the
Soul from Holderlin to Yeats".
Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds
Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists and scholars
in the humanities and the arts to probe creativity in its many
contexts, in the everyday mind, the exceptional mind, the
scientific mind, the artistic mind, and the pathological mind.
Components of creativity are specified with respect to types of
memory, forms of intelligence, modes of experience, and kinds of
emotion. Authors in this volume take on the challenge of showing
how creativity can be characterized behaviorally, cognitively, and
neurophysiologically. The complementary perspectives of the authors
add to the richness of these findings. Neuroscientists describe the
functioning of the brain and its circuitry in creative acts of
scientific discovery or aesthetic production. Humanists from the
fields of literature, art, and music give analyses of creativity in
major literary works, musical compositions, and works of visual
art.
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