The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative

(Part of the Rethinking Theory Series)

by Guillemette Bolens

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In this volume Guillemette Bolens examines the ways in which artists, authors, and readers draw on skills, sensorimotor capacities, and embodied knowledge when creating and experiencing artistic and literary works. In so doing, Bolens offers a new literary perspective on gesture studies and the role of embodied cognition in narrative. At the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiries into gesture, style, narratology, cognition, and literature, this...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1421405180

ISBN13:9781421405186

Release Date:May 2012

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:22 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative

(Part of the Rethinking Theory Series)

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