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Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 443

Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-02-24
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

An transdisciplinary exploration of narrative not just as a target for interpretation but also as a means for making sense of experience itself. With Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind into scholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies and research in the cognitive sciences. The book as a whole centers on two questions: How do people make sense of stories? And: How do people use stories to make sense of the world? Examining narratives from ...

The Sublime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

The Sublime

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

The appeal of the sublime in the minds of British critics and poets during the eighteenth century holds a unique position in the history of aesthetics. At no other time has aesthetics displayed a similar interest in the experience of the sublime. This book explores the impulses behind the fascination for that experience. The Greek treatise Peri Hupsous by Longinus constitutes the earliest source for the experience of the sublime, and as such it shaped much of British eighteenth-century criticism. But the attraction of the sublime received stimulus from other sources as well. In the effort to expand the context of the sublime, the author considers the incentives provided not only by Longinus, but also by the criticism of intellectual literature during the second half of the seventeenth century; a body of criticism that was not primarily concerned with the sublime, but which nevertheless served as an important link to its subsequent appeal.

Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest

In 1629, the natural philosopher René Descartes enticed a young artisan to undertake a secretive project, one that promised to revolutionize early modern astronomy. Descartes believed he had conceived a new kind of telescope lens, shaped by the light of reason itself, & surpassing anything ever to come from the hands of the glass-working craftsmen of the era. These novel lenses would never be touched by human hands -- they would be cut by an elaborate machine, a self-regulating & automatic device. This study traces the inception, development, & finally the collapse of this ambitious enterprise, which absorbed the energies & attentions of a broad range of 17th-century savants, including Huygens, Wren, Hevelius, Hooke, & even Newton. Illus.

All in All
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

All in All

Readers will no doubt discern points of contiguity among the essays in this volume. For example, several essays investigate sources - literary, pictorial, architectural - and Milton's use of those sources in his poetry. Others view Milton from the perspective of his age and seventeenth-century contemporaries such as Michael Drayton and Aemelia Lanyer.

Borges 2.0
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Borges 2.0

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Borges 2.0: From Text to Virtual Worlds analyzes Jorge Luis Borges's «The Library of Babel», «The Garden of Forking Paths», and «The Intruder» from a tripartite perspective that encompasses literature, science, and technology. This book underscores developments in chaos theory during the 1980s and their intricate connections with Borges's works and the digital world. Without losing sight of this critical framework, this study also takes into account Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome theory and Umberto Eco's theory on labyrinths. Borges 2.0 is unique in its analysis of how Borgesian texts relate to science and technology at the same time that science and the virtual world illuminate Borges's texts to provide a new reading of his work.

Zeppelin!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Zeppelin!

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-07
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Six decades later, there is still a mystique surrounding these technological leviathans, one that Zeppelin! addresses with insight and wit.

Comparative Criticism: Volume 13, Literature and Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Comparative Criticism: Volume 13, Literature and Science

Topics covered in this volume include literary Chinese as a language for science, the history and principles of scientific translation in Europe, the theatrical panorama in the 19th century and its roots in optical theory and experiment, and an alternative perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1970
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Supportive Care of Children with Cancer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1326

Supportive Care of Children with Cancer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-04-05
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Three of every four children and adolescents with cancer can now be cured. However, physicians are using increasingly intensive treatment regimens. These treatments can expose patients to toxic chemotherapeutic agents, invasive surgical procedures, and radiation oncology interventions that risk disfigurement, neuropsychiatric damage, and life-threatening organ toxicity. These potentially dire consequences have mandated that advances in cancer treatment go hand in hand with supportive care measures that sustain patients through their therapeutic ordeal and allow each patient to achieve maximum quality of life. In this book, now in its third edition, the discipline of supportive care in pediat...

The Meaning of Consciousness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

The Meaning of Consciousness

Advances a bold new theory of consciousness and meaning by means of subjective, holistic analysis