Cognitive Confusions
Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture
Edited by Ita Mac Carthy, Kirsti Sellevold and Olivia Smith
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Legenda 13 February 2017 • 200pp ISBN: 978-1-909662-99-5 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781883-42-6 (paperback, 30 September 2018) • RRP £10.99, $14.99, €13.49 ISBN: 978-1-781883-43-3 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ModernEnglishPhilosophyTheologystudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. A distinctively human aspect of the mind is its ability to handle both factual and counterfactual 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. Reviews:
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Bibliography entry: Carthy, Ita Mac, Kirsti Sellevold, and Olivia Smith (eds), Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture (Legenda, 2017) First footnote reference: 35 Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture, ed. by Ita Mac Carthy, Kirsti Sellevold and Olivia Smith (Legenda, 2017), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Carthy, Sellevold, and Smith, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Carthy, Ita Mac, Kirsti Sellevold, and Olivia Smith (eds). 2017. Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Carthy, Sellevold, and Smith 2017: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Carthy, Sellevold, and Smith 2017: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Cognitive-Confusions |