How Do I Know Thee? : Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France Paperback / softback
by Richard E. Goodkin
Part of the Rethinking the Early Modern series
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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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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2015
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- ISBN:9780810131804
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- ISBN:9780810131804
