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"Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe highlights the agency and intentionality of individuals and groups in the making of sensory knowledge from approximately 1500 to 1700. Focused case studies show how artisans, poets, writers, and theologians responded creatively to their environments, filtering the cultural resources at their disposal through the lenses of their own more immediate experiences and concerns. The result was not a single, unified sensory culture, but rather an entangling of micro-cultural dynamics playing out across an archipelago of contexts that dotted the early modern European world-one that saw profound transitions in ways people used sensory knowledge to claim ethical, intellectual, and practical authority"--

Senses and sensation in literature. --- European literature --- History and criticism. --- Senses and sensation in literature --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Senses and sensation in art

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"Literature's Sensuous Geographies offers a study of place in postcolonial literature and theory from other than the socio-cultural and political angles that have traditionally dominated the field. Moslund explores "sensuous geographies" (something that has so far been neglected in the study of place in literature) as opening up other than discursive relations to the world - other, non-territorial modes of being-in-the-world. The book develops a sense-aesthetic mode of reading (a "topo-poetics") and in close-readings of Conrad, Blixen, Coetzee and Achebe (among others), Moslund explores dimensions in literature that open up the place world as produced by desubjectified intensities of smell, sound, sight, touch, etc. Sense-aesthetic qualities of literary language are shown in this way as radically challenging the rationalizing logic of modernity (the inner logic of imperialism), at the heart of which Moslund identifies a disciplining of the senses and a reduction of the sensuous openness of reality. With his study of sensuous geographies in literature, Moslund makes a notable shift in the field of postcolonial studies and geocriticism from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis"--

Geography and literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Geocriticism. --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Geocriticism --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- Senses and sensation in literature --- Geography and literature

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Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exercise in hearing.An established critic and poet, Leighton explains how we listen to the printed word, while showing how writers use the expressivity of sound on the silent page. Although her focus is largely on poets-Alfred Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald-Leighton's scope includes novels, letters, and philosophical writings as well. Her argument is grounded in the specificity of the text under discussion, but one important message emerges from the whole: literature by its very nature commands listening, and listening is a form of understanding that has often been overlooked. Hearing Things offers a renewed call for the kind of criticism that, avoiding the programmatic or purely ideological, remains alert to the work of sound in every literary text.

Hearing. --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Spoken word poetry. --- Thematology --- Comparative literature --- Psychological study of literature --- English literature

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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train" (Oscar Wilde). Literature has always treated the sensational: crime, passion, violence, trauma, catastrophe. It has frequently caused, or been at the centre of scandal, censorship and moral outrage. But literature is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less well understood. It mediates between the sensory world, perception and cognition through rich modes of thought alli...

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User de ses sens, c'est faire preuve de délicatesse. On dira d'une oreille qu'elle est fine, d'un palais qu'il est sophistiqué ou d'un toucher qu'il est délicat. Avant tout jugement esthétique, le goût est une affaire de papilles que l'on doit entraîner avec patience. Herman Parret nous rappelle avec force que l'esthétique s'enracine dans une expérience corporelle, qui n'est pas moins perspicace que l'esprit. Notre aisthèsis gagne en finesse quand elle se perd, sans finalité ni idéal, dans les mailles de la matière. La jouissance : tout un art. Celui auquel s'entraîne, dans ses vagabondages toujours exigeants, le felix aestheticus. ; Un recueil de trois nouveaux essais d'esthétique, entre arts visuels et littérature, d'Herman Parret, philosophe déclaré et sémioticien sans le dire, compagnon du club de pensée réuni par Greimas dans les années 1970-80, et depuis lors tout proche témoin de ses prolongements : une réflexion sur la « délicatesse » dans les divers domaines de la sensorialité (le visible, le sonore, le gustatif et le tactile), d'Aristote à Gerhard Richter en passant par Léonard de Vinci, Rameau, Nietzsche, Proust et Marcel Duchamp – une lecture des plus suggestives pour la construction ou le développement d'une sémiotique (du) sensible.

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