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Book 2013.0

Tuning the Self

Eelco van Es

Edition: 1 edition

Literature Peter Lang Publishing 9783034313780 Available

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Other title information: George Herbert’s Poetry as Cognitive Behaviour

Annotation: This book provides a cognitive analysis of the poetry of George Herbert (1593- 1633). From Herbert’s own thinking, recorded in his prose treatises, can be deduced that his poems should serve a specific function: teaching self-knowledge to his readers. Self-knowledge is a necessary skill, to be applied in one’s strife for ‘temperance’: the regulation of body, house, church, mind, and community. To Herbert, the meaning of his poems is subservient to this function: poetry should aid his readers to temper their lives. The cognitive framework applied here can serve to explain this function. Following Merlin Donald’s theory of cognitive evolution, art serves the purpose of mimetic meta-cognition: a specific cognitive strategy at the disposal of a county priest. Moreover, a cognitive framework can serve to explain why the Herbert-tradition has paid so little attention to this artistic function; this tradition operates within specific confines, the same confines that Herbert sought to compensate with his poetry and his thinking.

Identifier: 9783034313780

Status: Available

Book 1995.0

Faces in the clouds

Stewart Guthrie

Culture Oxford University Press 0195069013 Available

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Other title information: a new theory of religion

Annotation: In this book anthorpologist Steward githrie argues persuasively that religion is anthropomorphism - the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things and events. Guthrie's explanation is radical. Anthropomorphism and hence religion, he says, strem form a stratefy of perception. Mrdhalling a wealth of evidence from etnography, cognitive science, philosophy, theology, advertising, literature, art and animal behavior. Faces in the clouds shows how this perceptual strategy pervades human life and how it underlines religious experience

Identifier: 0195069013

Status: Available

Journal Article 1989

The strategy of the headline

EDITH IAROVICI; RODICA AMEL

In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 4

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.441

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.441

Tuning the Self

Faces in the clouds

The strategy of the headline

A topographical interpretation of literature: Structural balance in Neil Simon’s ’Visitor from Mamaroneck’

Art: Biogenesis and semiogenesis

Conversational strategy and metastrategy in a pragmatic theory: The example of Scenes from a Marriage

Review article

The Life of Saint Alexius: structure and function of a medieval popular narrative

The meaning of the term makara in light of comparative mythology

An eighteenth-century view of animal communication

Conceptions of folklore in the development of literary semiotics

La communication épistolaire comme stratégie romanesque

Phenomenology and deconstructive strategy

Philosophy as a sign-producing activity: The metastable Gestalt of intentionality

Publications received

Review article

Sonstiges

The analysis of conversational topic sequence structures

Turn-taking and interruption in political interviews: Margaret Thatcher and Jim Callaghan compared and contrasted

The function of art as ′iconic text′: An alternative strategy for a semiotic of art