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Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture

Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture

Sellevold, Kirsti
Smith, Olivia
MacCarthy, Ita

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1909662992
ISBN13: 9781909662995
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Dec 19 2016
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

A distinctively human aspect of the mind is its ability to handle both factual and counter factual scenarios. This brings enormous advantages, but we are far from infallible in monitoring the boundaries between the real, the imaginary and the pathological. In the early modern period, particularly, explorations of the mind's ability to roam beyond the factual became mainstream. It was an age of perspective art, anamorphism and optical illusions; of prophecy, apocalyptic dreams, and visions; and of fascination with the supernatural. This volume takes a fresh look at early modern understandings of how to distinguish reality from dream, or delusion from belief. Opening with cognitivist and philosophical perspectives, Cognitive Confusions then examines test cases from across European literature, providing an original documentation of the mind in its most creative and pathological states.

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