Necessary nonsense : aesthetics, history, neurology, psychology /

"This book explores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical--ranging from Immanuel Kant to Lewis Carol, from examinations of Asperger's Syndrome to the waking state--and demonstrates that there is an element of nonsense, or stage of nonsense, in the normal cours...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Massey, Irving (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Colección:Cognitive approaches to culture.
Temas:
Nonsense literature > History and criticism.
Literature > Aesthetics.
Literature > Psychology.
Littérature nonsensique > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > Esthétique.
Littérature > Psychologie.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature > Aesthetics
Literature > Psychology
Nonsense literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nonsense: usage and uses
  • Metaphor and nonsense
  • The baroque: nonsense in prospect and retrospect
  • Salutary nonsense: Keats, Kant, and Madame de Staël; or inspiration vs. fanaticism
  • Neural nonsense: neuroaesthetics, hypnagogia, and the aesthetics of nonsense
  • Perceptual nonsense: the "image made by chance," automaticity, and the aesthetic universal
  • Assorted nonsense.

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