Human aesthetic preference in the visual domain is reviewed from definitional,
methodological, empirical, and theoretical perspectives. Aesthetic science is distinguished …

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a
rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis. The second edition of this …

Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to
identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by …

The notion of music as therapy is based on ancient cross-cultural beliefs that music can
have a “healing” effect on mind and body. Explanations for the therapeutic mechanisms in …

Text World Theory is a cognitive model of all human discourse processing. In this
introductory textbook, Joanna Gavins sets out a usable framework for understanding mental …

Creative coding tasks are often exploratory in nature. When producing digital artwork, artists
usually begin with a high-level semantic construct such as a “stained glass filter” and …

Multimodality, in its most fundamental sense, is the coexistence of more than one semiotic
mode within a given context. More generally, multimodality is an everyday reality. It is the …

Human beings have constantly told stories, presented events and placed the world into
narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world, yet, this book …

Texture represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. This book builds feeling and
embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach …

Jason Palmeri's Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy
challenges the longheld notion that the study and practice of composition has historically …