The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian FictionOUP Oxford, 27. 9. 2007 - Počet stran: 288 How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of the novel, a range based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading, He demonstrates the ways in which the Victorians thought they read, and uncovers surprising responses to the question of what might have transpired in the minds and bodies of readers of Victorian fiction. His detailed studies of novel critics who were also interested in neurological science, combined with readings of novels by Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Gissing, propose a vision of the Victorian novel-reader as far from the quietly immersed being we now imagine - as instead a reader whose nervous system was addressed, attacked, and soothed by authors newly aware of the neural operations of their public. Rich in unexpected intersections, from the British response to Wagnerian opera to the birth of speed-reading in the late nineteenth century, The Physiology of the Novel challenges our assumptions about what novel-reading once did, and still does, to the individual reader, and provides new answers to the question of how novels influenced a culture's way of reading, responding, and feeling. |
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... narrative forms could have upon the 'human physical organization'; they had already speculated upon 'physical rhythms in certain reading contexts', particularly the context of novel-reading, and had arrived at a complicated sense of the ...
... narrative forms could have upon the 'human physical organization'; they had already speculated upon 'physical rhythms in certain reading contexts', particularly the context of novel-reading, and had arrived at a complicated sense of the ...
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... narrative, are attempted.8 7 Any list of important sources for the history of reading, centered on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe, must include the following: James Allen, In The Public Eye: A History of Reading in ...
... narrative, are attempted.8 7 Any list of important sources for the history of reading, centered on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe, must include the following: James Allen, In The Public Eye: A History of Reading in ...
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... Narrative in Cyberspace (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997), which explicitly pursues comparisons between 'immersion' in traditional literary narrative, particularly novels, and 'immersion' in computer gaming. 9 Roger Chartier, The ...
... Narrative in Cyberspace (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997), which explicitly pursues comparisons between 'immersion' in traditional literary narrative, particularly novels, and 'immersion' in computer gaming. 9 Roger Chartier, The ...
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... narrative as a cultural technology best investigated with reference to categories of physiological response during reading. 2. Its aim was a psychology of print consumption, with the novel as the ideal paradigm of 'print'. The interest ...
... narrative as a cultural technology best investigated with reference to categories of physiological response during reading. 2. Its aim was a psychology of print consumption, with the novel as the ideal paradigm of 'print'. The interest ...
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... Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993); Manfred Jahn, 'Frames, Preferences, and the Reading of Third-Person Narratives: Towards a Cognitive Narratology', Poetics Today 18 ...
... Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993); Manfred Jahn, 'Frames, Preferences, and the Reading of Third-Person Narratives: Towards a Cognitive Narratology', Poetics Today 18 ...
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