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Adapted brains and imaginary worlds : cognitive science and the literature of the Renaissance /

"The literary discipline is based on principles of structure and language, is concerned with interpreting the emotions in characters comprising humanity in all its variety reacting to the provocations of their imaginary worlds, and encompasses our cognitive and affective reactions to those repr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beecher, Donald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
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  • Cover ; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 On the Obsessions of Selfhood: Doctor Faustus and the Dramatization of Consciousness; 2 The Biogenesis of Ethics and the Challenge of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; 3 On the Emotional Intentionality of Criminal Protagonists: The Yorkshire Tragedy; 4 On the Systemic Properties of Recollection: Emboxed Narratives and the Limits of Memory in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Thomas North's The Moral Philosophy of Doni; 5 Crying and the Ambiguity of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well.
  • 6 Toward a Cognitive Theory of Proverbs: The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolphus7 Romance and the Universality of Human Nature: Heliodorus, Aethiopica and Robert Greene, Menaphon; 8 Suspense ... ; 9 Laughter's Shortfall: The Aesthetics of Renaissance Tragicomedy, The Witch of Edmonton and The History of James the Fourth; 10 Cognition, Conversion, and the Patterns of Religious Experience: Francesco Petrarch's Familiar Letters, IV. 1; 11 Folk Psychology and Theory of Mind: John Marston's The Fawn; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.