In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yu, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspir…
In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of music, shows how illusions of music and speech-many of which she herself discovered-have fundamentally altered thinking about the brain. These astonishing…
This interdisciplinary study in comparative literature reconceptualizes hypnosis as an aesthetic activity in light of the phenomenology of novel reading, literary theory, and narrative ethics. It begins by tracing the history of hypnotism in the medical literature, from Mesmer, …
