Kinesic Intelligence in the Humanities

ISBN-13: 9781032289212 / Twarda / 2023 / 212 str.

Opis

This research collection showcases how kinesic intelligence is fundamental to human communication and our ability to produce complex meaning, exploring its manifestations across a range of humanities disciplines, and connecting our past with our social and cultural future.

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Contents

 

List of Contributors

 

Introduction: What is Kinesic Intelligence?

Guillemette Bolens

 

Chapter 1: The Role of Kinesic Intelligence in Child Language Development

              Aliyah Morgenstern

 

Chapter 2: Kinesic Intelligence in the Care Relationship: The Contribution of Clinical Psychology to Healthcare Provided to Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

              Élise Ricadat

 

Chapter 3: Kinesic Intelligence and Historical Research: Gestural Communication at the Court of Henry VIII

              Greg Walker

 

Chapter 4: Kinesic Intelligence in Common Law Reasoning

              Maksymilian Del Mar

 

Chapter 5: Reading as Embodied Simulation: Literary Techniques and Intersubjective Collaboration

              Paul B. Armstrong

 

Chapter 6: Why Love a Cat? An Anthropology of Human–Feline Kinesic Engagement On- and Off-line

              Ellen Hertz

 

Chapter 7: Material Scent: Textiles beyond Touch

              Jessica Hemming

 

Index

 

 

 

 

 

O autorze

 

Guillemette Bolens is Professor of Medieval and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is the author of several books, including The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012) and Kinesic Humor: Literature, Embodied Cognition, and the Dynamics of Gesture (OUP, 2021). Her work has been published in Poetics Today, Cahiers de narratologie, Studia Neophilologica, and Cogent Arts & Humanities.