Title
How literature changes the way we think [electronic resource] / Michael Mack.
ISBN
9781441197818 (electronic bk.)
1441197818 (electronic bk.)
9781441103208 (alk. paper)
1441103201 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
London ; New York : Continuum International Publishing, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 194 p.)
Call Number
PN45 .M319 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
801.3
Summary
"The capacity of the arts and the humanities, and of literature in particular, to have a meaningful societal impact has been increasingly undervalued in recent history. Both humanists and scientists have tended to think of the arts as a means to represent the world via imagination. Mack maintains that the arts do not merely describe our world but that they also have the unique and underappreciated power to make us aware of how we can change accustomed forms of perception and action"--provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based upon print version of record.
Think again: an introduction
Death again: reimagining the end
Revisiting torture and torment
Revisiting clones: change and the politics of life
Rethinking suffering: self and substance
The birth of literature
The birth of politics
Rethinking birth and aging: a conclusion.