Jul 19
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: The Travelling Concepts of Narrative
Series Title: Studies in Narrative 18
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/sin.18
Editor: Mari Hatavara
Editor: Lars-Christer Hydén
Editor: Matti Hyvärinen
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271969 Pages: 311 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271969 Pages: 311 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271969 Pages: 311 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Abstract:
Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age. For decades, it
has been one of the most successful catchwords in literature, history,
cultural studies, philosophy, and health studies. While the expansion of
narrative studies has led to significant advances across a number of fields,
the travels for the concept itself have been a somewhat more complex. Has the
concept of narrative passed intact from literature to sociology, from
structuralism to therapeutic practice or to the study of everyday
storytelling? In this volume, philosophers, psychologists, literary theorists,
sociolinguists, and sociologists use methodologically challenging test cases
to scrutinise the types, transformations, and trajectories of the concept and
theory of narrative. The book powerfully argues that narrative concepts are
profoundly relevant in the understanding of life, experience, and literary
texts. Nonetheless, it emphasises the vast contextual differences and
contradictions in the use of the concept.
Jul 19
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Reading the Absurd
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com
Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748670017
Author: Joanna Gavins
Hardback: ISBN: 9780748669264 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780748670017 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the
reader and the genre’s stylistic achievements.
What is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be
analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature? Taking the
theories and methodologies of stylistics as its underlying analytical
framework, Reading the Absurd tackles each of these questions. Selected key
works in English literature are examined in depth to reveal significant
aspects of absurd style. Its analytical approach combines stylistic inquiry
with a cognitive perspective on language, literature and reading which sheds
new light on the human experience of literary reading. By exploring the
literary absurd as a linguistic and experiential phenomena, while at the same
time reflecting upon its essential historical and cultural situation, Joanna
Gavins brings a new perspective to the absurd aesthetic.
Jul 19
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Language, Music, and the Brain
Subtitle: A Mysterious Relationship
Series Title: Strungmann Forum Reports
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Home Page
Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-music-and-brain
Editor: MIchael A Arbib
Hardback: ISBN: 9780262018104 Pages: 584 Price: U.S. $ 50.00
Abstract:
This book explores the relationships between language, music, and the brain by pursuing four key themes and the crosstalk among them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behaviour to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language. The book offers specially commissioned expositions of current research accessible both to experts across disciplines and to non-experts. These chapters provide the background for reports by groups of specialists that chart current controversies and future directions of research on each theme.
The book looks beyond mere auditory experience, probing the embodiment that links speech to gesture and music to dance. The study of the brains of monkeys and songbirds illuminates hypotheses on the evolution of brain mechanisms that support music and language, while the study of infants calibrates the developmental timetable of their capacities. The result is a unique book that will interest any reader seeking to learn more about language or music and will appeal especially to readers intrigued by the relationships of language and music with each other and with the brain.
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