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  • Experiencing Poetry

    A Guidebook to Psychopoetics

    by Prof Willie van Peer, Prof Anna Chesnokova ...
    Series series Advances in Stylistics
    How do we experience poetry as readers? What is it in the text that provokes particular reactions, and how can we methodologically reveal these effects?Introducing an evidence-based approach to poetics, this book explores the psychological effects of poetic form and content, with an emphasis on how real readers respond to and experience poetry. Engaging with texts from diverse cultural and ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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    The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

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    Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this or that function, but two whole, coherent, but incompatible ways of experiencing the world. The left ... Read more

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  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

    Fourth Edition

    by Roland Greene ...
    Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated ... Read more

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  • Soul Dust

    The Magic of Consciousness

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    A radically new view of the nature and purpose of consciousnessHow is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust, the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, proposes a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves inside ... Read more

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  • Love: All That Matters

    by Mark Vernon ...
    Series series All That Matters
    Love: All That Matters argues that the modern view on love has been distorted by a fixation on romantic love that has depleted our resources for living through the darker sides of love, whereas in fact there are several ways in which humans give and experience love over the course of their lives and it is best to have access to them all.Vernon draws on science, psychology, philosophy and ... Read more

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  • Theory of Mind and Literature

    Edited by Paula Leverage, Howard Mancing, Richard Schweickert ...
    Theory of Mind is what enables us to "put ourselves in another's shoes." It is mindreading, empathy, creative imagination of another's perspective: in short, it is simultaneously a highly sophisticated ability and a very basic necessity for human communication. Theory of Mind is central to such commercial endeavors as market research and product development, but it is also just as important in ... Read more

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  • Such Stuff as Dreams

    The Psychology of Fiction

    by Keith Oatley ...
    Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers.Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselvesInformed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can ... Read more

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  • Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy

    The Arts and Human Suffering

    by Stephen K. Levine ...
    Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist the temptation to assume the role of the victim. Among the many concerns that the book addresses ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Violence of Emotions

    Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis

    by Giuseppe Civitarese ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    In The Violence of Emotions the author marries an ability to introduce the reader to the intimate climate of an analytic session with a passionate rereading of Bion. To emphasize both the empirical nature of psychoanalysis and its extraordinary capacity to engender illuminating hypotheses concerning the functioning of the mind, clinical examples alternate with theoretical argument. The ... Read more

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  • How Poems Think

    by Reginald Gibbons ...
    To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways—guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified ... Read more

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    $52.99 USD

  • What is Poetry?

    Language and Memory in the Poems of the World

    by Nigel Fabb ...
    Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide ... Read more

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