Description: Kinesic Humor by Guillemette Bolens Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Literature is one of the richest sources of information concerning the ways in which human beings play with cognition. Human cognition is grounded in the ability to feel, perceive, and move. Kinesic Humor examines literary works written in different languages and various historical periods, in which the cognitive processing of gestures and kinesic interactions trigger humorous effects. By bringing together literary studies, cognitive studies, gesturestudies, and humor studies, this book offers an original perspective on literary artworks such as Chrétien de Troyes Yvain, Miltons Paradise Lost, Cervantes Don Quixote, Rousseaus Confessions, Sternes Tristram Shandy, and Stendhals Le Rouge et le Noir. Publisher Description This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The triggers of laughter in spoken language or conversation can often be very simple, such as a change in gesture, or in vocal tone or tempo. Speakers and listeners understand these dynamics of gesture through motorcognition and use them to great effect. The causes of laughter and the experience of humor in written texts, however, are less well understood. In Kinesic Humor, Guillemette Bolens offers a cognitivepoetics-based study of triggers of laughter in texts, focusing in particular on tonic shifts and gesture in plot and narrative. Bolens shows how literary texts from a variety of periods provide remarkably precise information concerning kinesthesia, the role of tonicity in communication, and the impact of momentum, timing, and tempo on the way in which gestures are processed in human exchanges. She investigates the narrative use of such parameters and how they promptlaughter in a wide-ranging corpus of major authors that includes Chrétien de Troyes, Cervantes, Milton, Saint-Simon, Rousseau, Sterne, and Stendhal. Using the theory of embodied cognition, Bolens shows howthwarted perceptions and expectations of movements and sensations produce the cognitive shifts typical of humor. Bringing together narratology, cognitive studies, gesture studies, humor studies, and historical context, this book offers original perspectives on important artworks and represents a major contribution to cognitive poetics. Originally published in French as LHumour et le savoir des corps in 2016, this volume not only brings the work to anEnglish-speaking audience for the first time but expands significantly on the original by analyzing a new corpus of texts and engaging with recent advances in the field to develop a cutting-edge theory of kinesic humor. Author Biography Guillemette Bolens is Professor of Medieval and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research interests are in the history of the body, kinesic intelligence, gestures, and embodied cognition in visual and verbal arts. She is the author of La Logique du corps articulaire: les articulations du corps humain dans la littérature occidentale (2000/2007), for which she was awarded the Latsis Prize and theHélène and Victor Barbour Prize for Literary Criticism; The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative (2012; first published in French in 2008), and LHumour et le savoir des corps: Don Quichotte, Tristram Shandyet le rire du lecteur (2016). Details ISBN 0190930063 ISBN-13 9780190930066 Title Kinesic Humor Author Guillemette Bolens Format Hardcover Year 2021 Pages 216 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:132232349; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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ISBN-13: 9780190930066
Book Title: Kinesic Humor
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Kinesic Humor : Literature, Embodied Cognition, and the Dynamics of Gesture
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Publication Year: 2021
Subject: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Author: Guillemette Bolens
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Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Series: Cognition and Poetics Ser.
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