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Title:
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HOW DO I KNOW THEE?
THEATRICAL AND NARRATIVE COGNITION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE |
By: |
Richard E. Goodkin |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£90.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0810130858 |
ISBN 13: |
9780810130852 |
Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
22 June, 2015 |
Series: |
Rethinking the Early Modern |
Pages: |
240 |
Description: |
The classical period in France presents a particularly lively battleground for the transition between oral-visual culture, on the one hand, and print culture on the other. The former depended on learning from sources of knowledge directly, in their presence, in a manner analogous to theatrical experience. The latter became characterized by the distance and abstraction of reading. How Do I Know Thee? explores the ways in which literature, philosophy, and psychology approach social cognition, or how we come to know others. |
Synopsis: |
The classical period in France presents a particularly lively battleground for the transition between oral-visual culture, on the one hand, and print culture on the other. The former depended on learning from sources of knowledge directly, in their presence, in a manner analogous to theatrical experience. The latter became characterized by the distance and abstraction of reading. How Do I Know Thee? explores the ways in which literature, philosophy, and psychology approach social cognition, or how we come to know others. Richard E. Goodkin describes a central opposition between what he calls "theatrical cognition" and "narrative cognition," drawing both on scholarship on literary genre and mode, and also on the work of a number of philosophers and psychologists, in particular Descartes's theory of cognition, Freudian psychoanalysis, mid?twentieth?century behaviorism, and the field of cognitive science. The result is a study that will be of interest not only to students of the classical period but also to those in the corresponding disciplines. |
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US |
Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
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