Necessary nonsense : aesthetics, history, neurology, psychology /
"This book explores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical--ranging from Immanuel Kant to Lewis Carol, from examinations of Asperger's Syndrome to the waking state--and demonstrates that there is an element of nonsense, or stage of nonsense, in the normal cours...
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Gepubliceerd in: |
Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2018]
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| Reeks: | Cognitive approaches to culture.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv22vd7kk |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Nonsense: usage and uses
- Metaphor and nonsense
- The baroque: nonsense in prospect and retrospect
- Salutary nonsense: Keats, Kant, and Madame de Staël; or inspiration vs. fanaticism
- Neural nonsense: neuroaesthetics, hypnagogia, and the aesthetics of nonsense
- Perceptual nonsense: the "image made by chance," automaticity, and the aesthetic universal
- Assorted nonsense.