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Literature and the Brain

By Norman N. Holland

Book information

Publisher
The PsyArt Foundation
Year
2009
ISBN
057801839X, 9780578018393
LCC
PN56.P93 H66 2009
Open Library ID
OL23732235M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1988803 bytes)
Pages
474\474
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN goes straight to the human core of literature when it explains the different ways our brains convert stories, poems, plays, and films into pleasure. When we are deep into a film or book, we find ourselves "absorbed," unaware of our bodies or our surroundings. We don't doubt the existence of Spider-Man or Harry Potter, and we have real feelings about these purely imaginary beings. Our brains are behaving oddly, because we know we cannot act to change what we are seeing. This is only one of the special ways our brains behave to with literature, ways that LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN reveals. 474 pp. 13 ill.

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