Peter (Hrsg.) Garratt

The Cognitive Humanities

Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture

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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 lite… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-137-59329-0
EAN: 9781137593290
Produktnummer: 21899686
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'384 KB

Über den Autor

Peter Garratt is Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK. He is a specialist in nineteenth-century literature and culture, and has published on writers such as George Eliot, Dickens and Ruskin, and on topics in cognitive theory and the medical humanities. His first book, Victorian Empiricism, was published in 2010.