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Literature and neuroscience come together to illuminate the human experience of beauty, which unfolds in time.How does beauty exist in time? This is Gabrielle Starr's central concern in Just in Time as she explores the experience of beauty not as an abstraction, but as the result of psychological and neurological processes in which time is central. Starr shows that aesthetic experience has temporal scale. Starr, a literary scholar and pioneer in the field and method of neuroaesthetics, which seeks the neurological basis of aesthetic experience, applies this methodology to the study of beauty in literature, considering such authors as Rita Dove, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Henry James, Toni Morrison, and Wallace Stevens, as well as the artists Dawoud Bey and Jasper Johns.Just in Time is richly informed by the methods and findings of neuroscientists, whose instruments let them investigate encounters with art down to the millisecond, but Starr goes beyond the laboratory to explore engagements with art that unfold over durations experiments cannot accommodate. In neuroaesthetics, Starr shows us, the techniques of the empirical sciences and humanistic interpretation support and complement one another. To understand the temporal quality of aesthetic experience we need both cognitive and phenomenological approaches, and this book moves boldly toward their synthesis.
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Keywords
- Aesthetics
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Criticism
- Dawoud Bey
- Decision making
- Default Mode Network
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Henry James
- History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900
- History Of Art / Art & Design Styles
- Humanities
- Jasper Johns
- Learning
- Motivation
- Music
- neuroaesthetics
- Painting
- Philosophy
- Philosophy: aesthetics
- Photography
- Poetry
- preference
- reward
- Rita Dove
- sister arts
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MN 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTN Philosophy: aesthetics
- Toni Morrison
- visual art
- Wallace Stevens
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DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13829.001.0001Editions