Iconotropism

Iconotropism
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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9780838755426
ISBN-13 : 0838755429
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Iconotropism by : Ellen Spolsky

"The essays in this collection expand the boundaries of inter-art studies, claiming that human beings have evolved to draw nourishment from pictures. Ellen Spolsky argues in a polemical introduction that the recognition of our embodied need for pictures, that is, our human iconotropism, provides a fresh way of understanding the relationship of works of art to their historical contexts."--Jacket.

Word vs Image

Word vs Image
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9780230598034
ISBN-13 : 023059803X
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Word vs Image by : E. Spolsky

Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds.

The Authority of the Word

The Authority of the Word
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 773
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ISBN-10 : 9789004215153
ISBN-13 : 9004215158
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Authority of the Word by : Celeste Brusati

This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700.

The Contracts of Fiction

The Contracts of Fiction
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780190232146
ISBN-13 : 0190232145
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Contracts of Fiction by : Ellen Spolsky

The Contracts of Fiction invites readers to consider the advantages of describing fictions as governed by a set of social contracts, teaching us how to think about the stuff of daily life, animate and inanimate, as abstractions.

The Seductions of Darwin

The Seductions of Darwin
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9780271079028
ISBN-13 : 0271079029
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The Seductions of Darwin by : Matthew Rampley

The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In this insightful book, Matthew Rampley addresses these questions by exploring key areas where Darwinism, neuroscience, and art history intersect. Taking a scientific approach to understanding art has led to novel and provocative ideas about its origins, the basis of aesthetic experience, and the nature of research into art and the humanities. Rampley’s inquiry examines models of artistic development, the theories and development of aesthetic response, and ideas about brain processes underlying creative work. He considers the validity of the arguments put forward by advocates of evolutionary and neuroscientific analysis, as well as its value as a way of understanding art and culture. With the goal of bridging the divide between science and culture, Rampley advocates for wider recognition of the human motivations that drive inquiry of all types, and he argues that our engagement with art can never be encapsulated in a single notion of scientific knowledge. Engaging and compelling, The Seductions of Darwin is a rewarding look at the identity and development of art history and its complicated ties to the world of scientific thought.

German in the World

German in the World
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Publisher : Studies in German Literature L
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781640140332
ISBN-13 : 1640140336
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis German in the World by : James Hodkinson

Weighs the value of Germanophone culture, and its study, in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and academic change.

Blood and Beauty

Blood and Beauty
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Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Total Pages : 399
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ISBN-10 : 9781938770432
ISBN-13 : 1938770439
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Blood and Beauty by : Rex Koontz

Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.

Cognitive Poetics

Cognitive Poetics
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 569
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ISBN-10 : 9783110205602
ISBN-13 : 3110205602
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Cognitive Poetics by : Geert Brône

For more than two decades now, cognitive science has been making overtures to literature and literary studies. Only recently, however, cognitive linguistics and poetics seem to be moving towards a more serious and reciprocal type of interdisciplinarity. In coupling cognitive linguistics and poetics, cognitive poeticians aim to offer cognitive readings of literary texts and formulate specific hypotheses concerning the relationship between aesthetic meaning effects and patterns in the cognitive construal and processing of literary texts. One of the basic assumptions of the endeavour is that some of the key topics in poetics (such as the construction of text worlds, characterization, narrative perspective, distancing discourse, etc.) may be fruitfully approached by applying cognitive linguistic concepts and insights (such as embodied cognition, metaphor, mental spaces, iconicity, construction grammar, figure/ground alignment, etc.), in an attempt to support, enrich or adjust 'traditional' poetic analysis. Conversely, the tradition of poetics may support, frame or call into question insights form cognitive linguistics. In order to capture the goals, gains and gaps of this rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research, this volume brings together some of the key players and critics of cognitive poetics. The eleven chapters are grouped into four major sections, each dealing with central concerns of the field: (i) the cognitive mechanisms, discursive means and mental products related to narrativity (Semino, Herman, Culpeper); (ii) the different incarnations of the concept of figure in cognitive poetics (Freeman, Steen, Tsur); (iii) the procedures that are meant to express or create discursive attitudes, like humour, irony or distance in general (Antonopoulou and Nikiforidou, Dancygier and Vandelanotte, Giora et al.); and (iv) a critical assessment of the current state of affairs in cognitive poetics, and more specifically the incorporation of insights from cognitive linguistics as only one of the contributing fields in the interdisciplinary conglomerate of cognitive science (Louwerse and Van Peer, Sternberg).The ensuing dialogue between cognitive and literary partners, as well as between advocates and opponents, is promoted through the use of short response articles included after ten chapters of the volume. Geert Br ne, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Jeroen Vandaele, University of Oslo, Norway.