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Les débris du sens : études sur les dérives de la perception et du sens
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ISBN: 9782952952446 2952952442 Year: 2008 Volume: *8 Publisher: [Paris]: Philologicum,

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Les hommes dans leur grande majorité ne voient pas le monde tel qu'il est ; nombreuses sont leurs erreurs de perception : aussi ont-ils besoin qu'on leur dise quoi penser. Les faiseurs de l'histoire officielle tissent en surface une vérité étrangère à la réalité des faits, et dans la vie quotidienne les faux-semblants président aux rapports humains. À une époque, la nôtre tout particulièrement, où la totalité du sens, et sa cohérence, se défait, au profit d'une atomisation pernicieuse des contenus et des formes, une étude sur les dérives de la perception engage plus largement la question du sens. Que voient la plupart des hommes, et que ne voient-ils pas ? Pourquoi et comment leur perception est-elle gauchie, faussée, entravée, altérée ou aliénée, et quelles sont les conséquences de cette altération ? Si, selon la formule célèbre, la vérité est l'adéquation entre la réalité et l'entendement (rei et intellectus), quels sont pour l'individu et la communauté les effets d'une telle altération ou aliénation du sens ? Autrement dit, pourquoi les choses ne sont-elles pas données, ne se donnent-elles pas, ou ne sont-elle pas perçues comme formant un sens entier et partageable immédiatement par tous ? Une telle question trouve des réponses aussi bien dans la philosophie, la théologie ou l'esthétique, que dans la littérature, la musique et l'art, ou encore dans des sciences telles que la physique, la biologie et la psychiatrie. Les contributeurs réunis par Pascale Hummel et Frédéric Gabriel s'interrogent dans ce volume sur les formes que prend, dans un monde atomisé, le délitement de l'universel, et le gauchissement de l'idée même de perception.


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Joys and sorrows of imaginary persons : (on literary emotions)
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ISBN: 9401205795 1435641116 9781435641112 9789401205795 9042023929 9789042023925 9042023929 9789042023925 Year: 2008 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi,

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Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons is a literary approach to consciousness where Donald Wesling denies that emotion is the scandal or handmaid of reason—rather emotion is the co-creator with reason of human life in the world. Discoveries in neuro-science in the 1990's Decade of the Brain have proven that thinking and feeling are wrapped with each other, and regulate and fulfill each other. Accepting this co-creative equality, we reveal a new role for literature, or a traditional role we’ve repressed: literature as a set of processes in time where we’ve thought feeling through stories about the lives of imaginary persons. We need these stories in order to practice emotions for when we return to the world from reading. Donald Wesling argues that to be more accurate in our dealings with stories, we require a grammar of this new recognition, where we build up traditional stylistics by a more careful tracking of emotion-states as these are set into writing. The first half of Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons offers a creative stock-taking of the current state of scholarship on emotion, based on wide reading in several fields. The second half gives three focused studies, rich in examples, of emotion as cognition, as story, and as historical structure of feeling.

How to read the Victorian novel.
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ISBN: 9781405130554 9781405130561 Year: 2008 Publisher: Malden Blackwell

Science and sensation in Romantic poetry
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ISBN: 9780521869379 9780511484292 9780521188692 0511387725 9780511387722 9780511388736 051138873X 0511386737 9780511386732 9780511380945 0511380941 0511484291 0521869374 9786611254629 6611254625 0521869374 1107179580 1281254622 0511384904 0511383053 0521188695 9781107179585 9781281254627 9780511384905 9780511383052 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Romantic poets, notably Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and Keats, were deeply interested in how perception and sensory experience operate, and in the connections between sense-perception and aesthetic experience. Noel Jackson tracks this preoccupation through the Romantic period and beyond, both in relation to late eighteenth-century human sciences, and in the context of momentous social transformations in the period of the French Revolution. Combining close readings of the poems with interdisciplinary research into the history of the human sciences, Noel Jackson sheds light on Romantic efforts to define how art is experienced in relation to the newly emerging sciences of the mind and shows the continued relevance of these ideas to our own habits of cultural and historical criticism today. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of Romanticism, but also to those interested in the intellectual interrelations between literature and science.

Eighteenth-century sensibility and the novel : the senses in social context
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ISBN: 9780521604581 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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"This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it, in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with some scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van Sant to explore in the broader social context - specifically in the display of repentant prostitutes and the children of the vagrant and criminal poor and in certain scientific experiments - the coincidence between the rhetoric of pathos and scientific presentation. Showing that when sensibility becomes central to an understanding of psychology, it becomes the basis for an experimental approach to character, she argues that Samuel Richardson's method of revealing his heroine's heart in Clarissa is analogous to the enterprise of scientists creating and observing suffering in order to study interior physiological functions." "The book goes on to explore sensibility's location of psychological response in physical structures. Van Sant invokes eighteenth-century debates about the relative status of sight and touch in epistemology and psychology, as a context for discussing the "man of feeling," a spectator who reports on "touching" experiences. Focusing principally on Laurence Stern's A Sentimental Journey, she argues that the man of feeling's experience is located in the body - by definition both feminized and physiological, and therefore inherently parodic." "In a further note on readers of sensibility, she examines the relation between focusing on a physiologically defined moment and the fragmented, intensified episodes of the sentimental narrative."--Jacket.

Rethinking the medieval senses : heritage, fascinations, frames
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ISBN: 9780801887376 9780801887369 0801887372 0801887364 Year: 2008 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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