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How Literature Plays with the Brain

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

How Literature Plays with the Brain

By Paul B. Armstrong

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About the book

"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 plays with the brain through experiences of harmony and dissonance which set in motion oppositions that are fundamental to...Show more

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9781421415765

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Published year

2014

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1

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How Literature Plays with the Brain

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Paperback

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