LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul b armstrong

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  • Stories and the Brain
    Paul B Armstrong
    How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning.Armstrong argues that the ways in which stories order events in time, imitate actions, and relate ...
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    48,52 €

  • How Literature Plays with the Brain
    Paul B. Armstrong
    'Literature matters,' says Paul B. Armstrong, 'for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story.' In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. His central argument is that literature pl...
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    42,13 €

  • The Phenomenology of Henry James
    Paul B. Armstrong / Paul BArmstrong
    Armstrong suggests that James’s perspective is essentially phenomenological--that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists. He examines the connections between phenomenology’s theory of consciousness and existentialism’s analyses of the lived world in rel...
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    64,32 €

  • Conflicting Readings
    Paul B. Armstrong / Paul BArmstrong
    Armstrong argues that conflicting readings occur because readers with opposing suppositions about language, literature, and life can generate irreconcilable hypotheses about a text. Without endorsing a particular critical methodology, the author offers a theory designed to help readers better understand the causes and consequences of interpretive disagreement so that they may m...
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    64,52 €