The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative (Rethinking Theory)
Автор:Guillemette Bolens Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 248 ISBN: 1421405180 In this volume Guillemette Bolens examines the ways in which artists, authors, and readers draw on skills, sensorimotor capacities, and embodied knowledge when creating and experiencing artistic and literary works. In so doing, Bolens offers a new literary perspective on gesture studies and the role of embodied cognition in narrative.At the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiries into gesture, style, narratology, cognition, and literature, this work brings together academic expertise in literary studies with a consideration of neuroscientific and cognitive findings. Bolens studies the relevance of kinesic intelligencea??our ability to understand the meaning of body movements, postures, gestures, and facial expressionsa??to the interpretation of literature. Through her discussions of works by John Milton, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and major medieval authors, Bolens shows how our experience of creative works draws on forms of cognition that are grounded in our...
