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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主要作者: Massey, Irving (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press [2018]
叢編:Cognitive approaches to culture.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv22vd7kk
書本目錄:
  • 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.