Just in Time

Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience

G. Gabrielle Starr

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MIT Press
06 June 2023

Psychology

Literature and neuroscience come together to illuminate the human experience of beauty, which unfolds in time.

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.

By: G. Gabrielle Starr
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262048040
ISBN 10: 0262048043
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 06 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

G. Gabrielle Starr is the Philip and Gertrude McConnell Professor of Human Relations and Professor of English and Neuroscience at Pomona College, and President of Pomona College. Her publications include Feeling Beauty- The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience (The MIT Press, 2013).