Don LePan

The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture

Volume 1: The Birth of Expectation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

LePan challenges the assumption that everybody thinks in the same way by examining a particular mental faculty - expectation. He concludes that certain forms of expectation did not exist in the minds of most medieval people, any more than they do in children or adults in many primitive societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-09990-0
• 1st ed. 1989
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781349099900
• ISBN-10: 1349099902
• Artikelnr.: 44458870

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The issues of cognitive processes: anthropological perspectives; historical perspectives; literary perspectives. Part 2 Expectation in medieval society: expectation; the dawn of the artificial day - medieval temporal thought processes; thinking across the past; thinking into the future; causation and probability. Part 3 Literary expectation: expectation and literary plots; the ways of thought of medieval literature; Shakespeare and the revolution in literary plotting; illusion - expectation's dramatic by-product; Simon Forman's expectations. Postscript: Zimbabwe, 1985