Literature and the Brain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780578025124)

LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN goes straight to the human core of literature when it explains the different ways our brains convert stories, poems, plays, and films into pleasure. When we are deep into a film or book, we find ourselves "absorbed," unaware of our bodies or our surroundings. We don't doubt the existence of Spider-Man or Harry Potter, and we have real feelings about these purely imaginary beings. Our brains are behaving oddly, because we know we cannot act to change what we are seeing. This is only one of the special ways our brains behave with literature, ways that LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN reveals.

Author: Norman N. Holland
ISBN-10: 0578025124
ISBN-13: 9780578025124
Publisher: Psyart Foundation
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2009
Pages: 474
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d