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Texture - A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading by Peter Stockwell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Texture - A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading about?
__Texture__ represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. This book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved in recent years. Taking key familiar concepts such as characterisation, tone, empathy, and identification, the book aims to describe the natural experience of literary reading in a thorough and principled way. Accessibly and informatively written, __Texture__ draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art. The aim is a new cognitive aesthetics of literature for its academic, student, professional and natural readers.
Who reads Texture - A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Stockwell
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press Ltd
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474472890
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Travel, History