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How Do I Know Thee?: Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France
Northwestern University Press, 2015 eISBN: 978-0-8101-3086-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-3085-2 | Paper: 978-0-8101-3180-4 Library of Congress Classification PQ245.G66 2015 Dewey Decimal Classification 840.938409032
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Cognition in literature | French literature | Philosophy, French | Seventeenth - Century France | Social perception in literature See other titles from Northwestern University Press |
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How Do I Know Thee?: Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France
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Northwestern University Press, 2015
eISBN: 978-0-8101-3086-9
Cloth: 978-0-8101-3085-2
Paper: 978-0-8101-3180-4
eISBN: 978-0-8101-3086-9
Cloth: 978-0-8101-3085-2
Paper: 978-0-8101-3180-4
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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