How Literature Plays with the Brain

Download or read book How Literature Plays with the Brain written by Paul B. Armstrong and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the neuroscientific community, the study suggests that different areas of research—the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions—may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. For critics and students of literature, the study engages fundamental questions within the humanities: What is aesthetic experience? What happens when we read a literary work? How does the interpretation of literature relate to other ways of knowing?