The Literature Of The Senses

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Embodied

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Author : William A. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2009

Embodied written by William A. Cohen and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.

"In these elegant engagements with literary works, cultural history, and critical theory, Cohen advances a phenomenological approach to embodiment, proposing that we encounter the world not through our minds or souls but through our senses."--BOOK JACKET.

Literature And The Senses

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Author : Annette Kern-Stähler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-20

Literature And The Senses written by Annette Kern-Stähler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-20 with Literary Criticism categories.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception. Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including: the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the 'Great Stink' that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an eggplant registered in a poetic performance; tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of, the senses.

The Five Senses In Nabokov S Works

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Author : Marie Bouchet
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-06-19

The Five Senses In Nabokov S Works written by Marie Bouchet and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-19 with Literary Criticism categories.

This collection of essays focuses on a subject largely neglected in Nabokovian criticism—the importance and significance of the five senses in Vladimir Nabokov’s work, poetics, politics and aesthetics. This text analyzes the crucial role of the author’s synesthesia and multilingualism in relation to the five senses, as well as the sensual and erotic dimensions of sensoriality in his works. Each chapter provides a highly focused and sometimes provocative approach to the unique role that sensory perceptions play in the shaping and narrating of Nabokov’s memories and in his creative process.

Reading With The Senses In Victorian Literature And Science

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Author : David Sweeney Coombs
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19

Reading With The Senses In Victorian Literature And Science written by David Sweeney Coombs and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with Literary Criticism categories.

The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception. This division into two discrete categories was foundational to Victorian physics, physiology, and experimental psychology. As David Sweeney Coombs reveals, however, it was equally important to Victorian novelists, aesthetes, and critics, for whom the distinction between sensation and perception promised the key to understanding literature’s seemingly magical power to conjure up tastes, sights, touches, and sounds from the austere medium of print. In Victorian literature, science, and philosophy, the parallel between reading and perceiving gave rise to momentous debates about description as a mode of knowledge as well as how, and even whether, reading about the world differs from experiencing it firsthand. Examining novels and art criticism by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Lee, and Walter Pater alongside scientific works by Hermann von Helmholtz, William James, and others, this book shows how Victorian literature offers us ways not just to touch but to grapple with the material realities that Clifford Geertz called the "hard surfaces of life."

The Cambridge Companion To The Body In Literature

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Author : David Hillman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-26

The Cambridge Companion To The Body In Literature written by David Hillman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-26 with Art categories.

This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The Senses In Early Modern England 1558 1660

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Author : Simon Smith
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-28

The Senses In Early Modern England 1558 1660 written by Simon Smith and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-28 with Literary Criticism categories.

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses illuminates the literature, art and culture of early modern England. Examining canonical and less familiar literary works alongside early modern texts ranging from medical treatises to conduct manuals via puritan polemic and popular ballads, the collection offers a new view of the senses in early modern England. The volume offers dedicated essays on each of the five senses, each relating works of art to their cultural moments, whilst elsewhere the volume considers the senses collectively in particular cultural contexts. It also pursues the sensory experiences that early modern subjects encountered through the very acts of engaging with texts, performances and artworks. This book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, to those working in sensory studies, and to anyone interested in the art and life of early modern England.

The Literary Sense

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Author : Edith Nesbit
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2020-12-08

The Literary Sense written by Edith Nesbit and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with Art categories.

A collection of short stories by the children's writer Edith Nesbitt. These are tales of romance and so demonstrate her ability to write not just for children. Nesbitt was indeed more than a children's author, being a founder member of the Fabian Society.

A Cultural History Of The Senses In The Renaissance

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Author : J. P. Toner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

A Cultural History Of The Senses In The Renaissance written by J. P. Toner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Perception categories.

This title delves into the sensory foundations of Western civilization, taking a comprehensive period-by-period approach, which provides a broad understanding of the life of the senses from antiquity to the modern day.

The Organs Of Sense

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Author : Adam Ehrlich Sachs
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2019-05-21

The Organs Of Sense written by Adam Ehrlich Sachs and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with Fiction categories.

"This book is only for people who like joy, absurdity, passion, genius, dry wit, youthful folly, amusing historical arcana, or telescopes." —Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labors and American Innovations In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the longest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—and not only blind, but incapable of sight, both his eyes having been plucked out some time before under mysterious circumstances. Is he mad? Or does he, despite this impairment, have an insight denied the other scholars of his day? These questions intrigue the young Gottfried Leibniz—not yet the world-renowned polymath who would go on to discover calculus, but a nineteen-year-old whose faith in reason is shaky at best. Leibniz sets off to investigate the astronomer’s claim, and over the three hours remaining before the eclipse occurs—or fails to occur—the astronomer tells the scholar the haunting and hilarious story behind his strange prediction: a tale that ends up encompassing kings and princes, family squabbles, obsessive pursuits, insanity, philosophy, art, loss, and the horrors of war. Written with a tip of the hat to the works of Thomas Bernhard and Franz Kafka, The Organs of Sense stands as a towering comic fable: a story about the nature of perception, and the ways the heart of a loved one can prove as unfathomable as the stars.

Reading Wonders Literature Big Book Senses At The Seashore Grade K

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Author : McGraw-Hill
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Release Date : 2012-04-09

Reading Wonders Literature Big Book Senses At The Seashore Grade K written by McGraw-Hill and has been published by McGraw-Hill Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

A child shares the sights, sounds, smells, touches, and tastes of a day at the seashore.