Kinesic Humor Literature Embodied Cognition and the Dynamics of Gesture 1st Edition by Guillemette Bolens 0190930063 9780190930066

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ISBN 10: 0190930063

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Author: Guillemette Bolens

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The triggers of laughter in spoken language or conversation can often be very simple, such as a change in gesture, or in vocal tone or tempo. Speakers and listeners understand these dynamics of gesture through motor cognition and use them to great effect. The causes of laughter and the experience of humor in written texts, however, are less well understood. In Kinesic Humor, Guillemette Bolens offers a cognitive poetics-based study of triggers of laughter in texts, focusing in particular on tonic shifts and gesture in plot and narrative. Bolens shows how literary texts from a variety of periods provide remarkably precise information concerning kinesthesia, the role of tonicity in communication, and the impact of momentum, timing, and tempo on the way in which gestures are processed in human exchanges. She investigates the narrative use of such parameters and how they prompt laughter in a wide-ranging corpus of major authors that includes Chrétien de Troyes, Cervantes, Milton, Saint-Simon, Rousseau, Sterne, and Stendhal. Using the theory of embodied cognition, Bolens shows how thwarted perceptions and expectations of movements and sensations produce the cognitive shifts typical of humor. Bringing together narratology, cognitive studies, gesture studies, humor studies, and historical context, this book offers original perspectives on important artworks and represents a major contribution to cognitive poetics. Originally published in French as L’Humour et le savoir des corps in 2016, this volume not only brings the work to an English-speaking audience for the first time but expands significantly on the original by analyzing a new corpus of texts and engaging with recent advances in the field to develop a cutting-edge theory of kinesic humor.

Kinesic Humor Literature Embodied Cognition and the Dynamics of Gesture 1st Table of contents:

1. Milton: Surprised by humor

2. Sterne: The naturalness of a toe movement

3. Saint-Simon: Speed and touch, or how to push a duke

4. Rousseau: Fast breathing and trembling hands

5. Stendhal: Walking styles and emotional practice

6. Ovid and Chrétien de Troyes: Pyramus, Thisbe, and Yvain’s hypersensitive lion

7. Cervantes: Laughing at a metaphor

Conclusion: Jacques Tati and Eddie Izzard

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