Texture [[electronic resource] ] : a cognitive aesthetics of reading / / Peter Stockwell

• Autore: Stockwell Peter
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 418.4019
• Soggetto topico: Aesthetics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references ([193]-211) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Text, Textuality and Texture; 2 Resonance and Intensity; 3 Sensation and Empathy; 4 Voice and Mind; 5 Identification and Resistance; 6 Texture and Meaning; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Texture represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. This book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved in recent years. Taking key familiar concepts such as characterisation, tone, empathy, and identification, the book aims to describe the natural experience of literary reading in a thorough and principled way. Accessibly and informatively written, Texture draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art. The aim is a new cognitiv
• Titolo autorizzato: Texture
• ISBN: 0-7486-5151-9; 0-7486-3120-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458433703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II