Kinesic Humor: Literature, Embodied Cognition, and the Dynamics of Gesture

ISBN-13: 9780190930066 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 216 str.

Guillemette Bolens

Recenzje

Kinesic humorDLtriggered by surprising shifts in the rhythm of gesturesDLis an important aspect of human sociality; but it takes a scholar of Bolens's brilliance and interdisciplinary expertise to demonstrate that literature can create textual contexts for such humor in the most unexpected places. Embodied cognition is at the heart of the game that literature plays with the reader, and that game, Bolens shows us, is both poignant and funny.

O autorze

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 the Hélène 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 L'Humour et le savoir des corps: Don Quichotte, Tristram Shandy et le rire du lecteur (2016).