The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and the modern study of the mind, Mark Turner offers a vision of the central role that language and the arts of language can play in that adventure.
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Works such as [this] form the vanguard of our understanding; from the research front, they signal the presence of new and more fruitful relationships between the sciences and rhetorical and literary studies. -- Alan G. Gross, College English
The author demonstrates how a new revolution in critical thought demands an understanding of how humans think; this is more than knowing about neurons and synapses, however. A thoughtful book for those of us tired of trying to find the humanity in postmodern criticism. -- The Bloomsbury Review
A philosophically sophisticated work that goes a long way toward an empirically responsible account of the bodily and imaginative bases of concepts, meaning, reasoning, and language. -- Mark L. Johnson, Review of Metaphysics
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This work seems to have been the product of graduate level efforts to address the role of 'humanities' in the broader educational milieu. Specifically, Turner asks why the study of 'English literature' has become tangential to cultural life. Turner laments the fact that linguistics and computer-science produce the most important research on what it means to 'read' and 'understand'.
Turner's case for making English literature faculty teach semiotics and neurolinguistics will strike many as far fetched. The ideas are better developed in later works and deserve consideration.
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- Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Integrated Mind by Michael S. Gazzaniga on page 95, and Back Matter
- On Metaphor (A Critical Inquiry Book) by Sheldon Sacks in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Don Juan (Penguin Classics) by Lord George Gordon Byron in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Don Juan (The English poets) by Lord George Gordon Byron in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity by Alan Richardson on 6 pages
- Shakespeare's Webs: Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney on 5 pages
- Shakespeare's Webs: Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama by Arthur F. Kinney on 5 pages
- Contextualized Stylistics: In Honour of Peter Verdonk (DQR Studies in Literature 29) by Tony Bex on 4 pages
- The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language by Mark Turner on 4 pages
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