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| العنوان: |
Exploring Poetry with Cognitive Neuroscience: T.S. Eliot's ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. |
| المؤلفون: |
Wu, Christina1 (AUTHOR) christina.wu.12@ucl.ac.uk |
| المصدر: |
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. Dec2016, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p351-365. 15p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*NEUROSCIENCES, *LITERATURE, *ART |
| Reviews & Products: |
LOVE Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The (Poem : Eliot) |
| People: |
ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 |
| مستخلص: |
Research that involves both neuroscience and art often attempts to explain the aesthetic experience of ‘beauty’ in visual art, and to define the function of art in neural terms; less has been written concerning the neural correlates of poetry reading. It is suggested that there are existing areas of study in neuroscience that may help elucidate how we enjoy literature beyond pure neuroaesthetics, such as research in creative problem-solving, knowledge-based pleasure, and music. This essay endeavours to bring together insights from both neuroscience and literature to shed light on how and why we take pleasure in interpreting T.S. Eliot's ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. It is proposed that the pleasures of reading ‘Prufrock’ are ultimately associated with the ways in which the reader's expectations are confirmed or challenged. While the conclusions of this paper are intentionally constrained to a single poem, they are potentially generalisable. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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