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Author : Jeanette R. Malkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-04-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521383356
This book considers a spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and destroyed by language.
Author : Stefán Snævarr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042027800
This book argues that there is a complex logical and epistemological interplay between the concepts of metaphor, narrative, and emotions. They share a number of important similarities and connections. In the first place, all three are constituted by aspect-seeing, the seeing-as or perception of Gestalts. Secondly, all three are meaning-endowing devices, helping us to furnish our world with meaning. Thirdly, the threesome constitutes a trinity. Emotions have both a narrative and metaphoric structure, and we can analyse the concepts of metaphors and narratives partly in each other’s terms. Further, the concept of narratives can partly be analysed in the terms of emotions. And if emotions have both a narrative structure and a metaphoric one, then the concept of emotions must to some extent be analysable through the concepts of narratives and metaphors. But there is more. Metaphors (especially poetic ones) are important tools for the understanding of the tacit sides of emotions, perhaps because of the metaphoric structure of emotions. The notion that narrations can be tools for understanding emotions follows from two facts: narrations are devices for explanation and emotions have a narrative structure. Fourthly, the threesome has an impact on our rationality. It has become commonplace to say that emotions have a cognitive content, that narratives have an explanatory function, and that metaphors can perform cognitive functions. This book is the first attempt to articulate the implications that these new ways of seeing the three concepts entail for our concept of reason. The cognitive roles of the threesome suggest a richer notion of rationality than has traditionally been held, a rationality enlivened with metaphoric, narrative, and emotive qualities.
Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674637122
Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images
Author : Paula Ruth Gilbert
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773577107
In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender. Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are striking out at an external other or harming themselves through acts of self-destruction and depression. Gilbert examines the degree to which women are imitating men in the outward direction of their anger and hostility and suggests that such "tough" women may be mocking men in their "macho" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways in which Quebec female authors are "feminizing" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American culture. Gilbert bridges methodological gaps and integrates history, sociology, literary theory, feminist theory, and other disciplinary approaches to provide a framework for the discussion of important ethical and aesthetic questions.
Author : Margaret Sutherland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136484735
This book discusses the kind of imaginative thinking which is going on all the time without producing the masterpieces of art and culture. The author brings together the body of educational theory, psychological theory and some general opinions about imagination, to provide an account of everyday imagining for educationalists, psychologists, teachers and parents.
Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Psychology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009966631
Author : Mary Ann Mattoon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Jungian psychology
ISBN : 1583911103
The major topics of Jungian psychology are presented in a manner that is clear, emotionally engaging, well illustrated and non-dogmatic."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Zbigniew Pietrasiński
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483154473
The Psychology of Efficient Thinking provides information concerning intellectual abilities and psychological principles of thinking that might be helpful in the solution of more complex problems encountered in the vocational field or in daily living. This book explores the ways and means of increasing the efficiency of thought. Organized into three parts encompassing six chapters, this book begins with an overview of the nature of intellect with special reference to intelligence and mental abilities. This text then examines the general field of mental development. Other chapters consider the application of intellect in such spheres as technical invention, problem solving, and general creativity. This book discusses as well the training of intellect, both by individual effort and at school. The final chapter deals with the continuous engagement in activities requiring thought, which is an essential condition for the improvement of intellectual skill. Psychologists, scientists, and teachers will find this book useful.
Author : María Pía Lara
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Good and evil
ISBN : 9780231140300
Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, María Pía Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development. Drawing on Immanuel Kant's and Hannah Arendt's ideas about reflective judgment, Lara argues that narrative plays a key role in helping societies acknowledge their pasts. Particular stories haunt our consciousness and lead to a kind of examination and dialogue that shape notions of morality. A powerful description of a crime can act as a filter, helping us to draw conclusions about what constitutes a moral wrong, and public debates over these narratives allow us to construct a more accurate picture of historical truth, leading to a better understanding of why such actions are possible. In building her argument, Lara considers Greek tragedies, Shakespeare's depictions of evil, Joseph Conrad's literary metaphors, and movies that portray human cruelty. Turning to such philosophers and writers as Jürgen Habermas, Walter Benjamin, Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, and Ariel Dorfman, Lara defines a reflexive relationship between an event, the narrative of the event, and the public reception of the narrative, and she proves that the stories of perpetrators and sufferers are always intertwined. The process of disclosure, debate, and the public fashioning of collective judgment are vital methods through which we make sense not only of new forms of cruelty but of past crimes as well. Narrating Evil describes the steps of this process and why they are a crucial part of our attempt to build a different, more just world.
Author : Tony Belpaeme,Stephen J. Cowley,Karl F. MacDorman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288745
When explaining cognition one must explain how representations in the mind, or symbols, become meaningful by connecting to the external world. This process of connecting symbols with sensorimotor experiences is known as symbol grounding. The classical view of symbol grounding is that it is an individual process: a person or machine interacts with the environment and associates symbols with external experiences. This volume contains views from different disciplines – ranging from psychology to robotics – on how this view can be extended by first extending symbol grounding to encompass semiotics and by showing how the classical view exaggerates the importance of written language: grounding does not necessarily involve written notations, but rather language is an external cognitive resource that allows us to acquire categories and concepts. Secondly, as symbol grounding relies on language to acquire and coordinate the process and language is a dynamical process rooted in both culture and biology, symbol grounding by extension is also sensitive to culture, emotion and embodiment. The contributions to this volume were previously published in Interaction Studies 8:1 (2007).
Author : Frederick Ryland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUKRR
Author : W.K. Wimsatt
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813158495
The sixteen essays in this volume form a series of related focuses upon various levels and areas of literary criticism. W.K. Wimsatt's assumption is that practice and theory of both the past and the present are integrally related-that there is a continuity in the materials of criticism-that a person who studies poetry today has a critical concern, not merely a historical interest, in what Aristotle or Plato said about poetry. He regards the great perennial problems of criticism as arising not by the whim of a tolerantly pluralist choice, but from the nature of language and reality. With profound learning and insight, Wimsatt treats almost the whole range of literary criticism. The first group of essays deals with fallacies he believes are involved in prevalent approaches to the literary object. The next two groups face the responsibilities of the critic who defends literature as a form of knowledge; they treat various problems of structure and style. The last group undertakes to examine the relation of literature to other arts, the relation of evaluative criticism to historical studies, and the relation of literature not only to morals, but more broadly to the whole complex of the Christian religious tradition.
Author : HowExpert
Publisher : HowExpert
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781647589509
If you want to know the secrets on how to excel in your academic standing, then get a copy of this "How To Get Good Grades"guide. In this step-by-step guide you will be able to learn the following: - How to deal with different types of teachers. - How to avoid failing. - How to prepare yourself in studying your lessons. - How to manage your time. - How to set goals. - How to set priorities. - How to study. - How to develop good study habit. - How to gain mastery of the lessons. - And much more. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.
Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Psychology
ISBN : OXFORD:N13312941
Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004990797