How literature plays with the brain : the neuroscience of reading and art / Paul B. Armstrong.

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]

xv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-212) and index.

Preface -- The brain and aesthetic experience -- How the brain learns to read and the play of harmony and dissonance -- The neuroscience of the hermeneutic circle -- The temporality of reading and the de-centered brain -- The social brain and the paradox of the alter ego -- Epilogue.