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How literature plays with the brain : the neuroscience of reading and art

by Paul B. Armstrong

This interdisciplinary study analyses the intersection of literary theory and neuroscience. It examines how literature engages neurobiological tensions between pattern and flexibility, using phenomenology to explore aesthetic experience and the process of interpretation.

Accession 11684 ISBN 9781421410029 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
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