Guillemette Bolens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guillemette Bolens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guillemette |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolens |
| SIGNATURE | BOLENS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Emotional Pain and Self-Harm in the Prose Lancelot and the Alliterative Morte Arthure
Medieval romance often associates anger, sadness and distress with self-harm when these emotions reach a high level of intensity. In the Alliterative Morte Arthure , Arthur’s knights protest that the king is ‘blundering himself’ (that is, injuring himself) when mourning Gawain and feeling overwhelmed with sorrow. In the Prose Lancelot , Galehaut asks Lancelot, who has spent the night beset by heart-wrenching grief, why he is ‘killing himself’. In…
Fleshing out the Facts: Cognition and Kinesic Specifications in Legal and Literary Reasoning
We produce kinesic specifications when we cognitively process sensorimotor concepts. For example, the sensorimotor concept of falling may be processed as a life-threatening event or a mere cause of fleeting embarrassment. This article considers the cognitive production of kinesic specifications in legal and literary reasoning, focusing on the acts of reading and judging as they appear in early modern amplifications of the Book of Genesis, written…
Embodied Cognition, Kinaesthetic Knowledge, and Kinesic Imagination in Literature and Visual Arts
Embodied cognition, kinaesthetic knowledge, and kinesic imagination are central not only to acts of creation but also to the reception of artworks. This article substantiates this claim by focusing on sensorimotricity in art and literature, presenting two sets of analytical distinctions that pertain to dynamics in gesture and movement. The first set of distinctions—kinesis, kinaesthesia, kinetics, and kinematics—and the second set—timing, tempo, …
Inventive embodiment and sensorial imagination in medieval drawings: The marginalia of the Walters Book of Hours MS W.102
This article examines a series of remarkable English drawings penned around 1300 by an anonymous artist in the margins of a manuscript now held by the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore (Walters Book of Hours MS W.102). Rarely studied by art historians, these forty-seven marginalia are strikingly original and call for a new analytical approach if we are to understand their full implications. The method of kinesic analysis is used in this article to …
The Sense of Movement in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure
The Alliterative Morte Arthure and Stanzaic Morte Arthur narrate violent interactions and intense emotions that are predominantly conveyed by means of kinesis. When a literary work refers to kinesis, i.e., gestures, movements, facial expressions, and physical interactions, readers tend to infer the kinaesthetic valence of such information. The term kinaesthesia refers to the sense of movement. More systematically than their medieval sources, the …
Emotions in history and literature
Medieval and Early Modern Authorship
Les gestes et la perception du mouvement dans l’art et la littérature
La compréhension d’un texte littéraire ou d’une œuvre picturale se fonde pour beaucoup sur notre capacité à exploiter notre intelligence kinésique. L’intelligence kinésique est la faculté qui nous permet d’élaborer des images motrices et des narrations kinésiques pour comprendre un verbe d’action ou un trope de mouvement, la description d’un geste ou d’un événement sensorimoteur. En situation réelle, nous reconnaissons aussi bien les similarités …
Narrative Use and the Practice of Fiction in The Book of Sindibad and The Tale of Beryn
This essay considers David Rudrum's claim that narrative is a type of language act that needs to be construed with regard to its use. Here this claim is related to one of the most influential literary traditions in the history of fiction: the Eastern Book of Sindibad and its Western offshoot, the Seven Sages of Rome, in which narrative use is of central significance. I focus more particularly on a tale embedded in the Eastern Book of Sindibad, “T…
Continuité et transformation des logiques corporelles
Homeric joints and the marrow in Plato’s Timaeus: Two logics of the body
The notion of culture as an entity is problematized in this article by the study of two different logics of the body, both present in the same culture, that of ancient Greece. The first logic, analyzed in the «Iliad», organizes the body in relation to joints and tendons, while the second defines the body in terms of its openings, of the idea of envelope, and of the inside-outside dichotomy; it clearly appears in Plato's «Timaeus». Crucial to the …
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Homeric joints and the marrow in Plato’s Timaeus: Two logics of the body
The notion of culture as an entity is problematized in this article by the study of two different logics of the body, both present in the same culture, that of ancient Greece. The first logic, analyzed in the «Iliad», organizes the body in relation to joints and tendons, while the second defines the body in terms of its openings, of the idea of envelope, and of the inside-outside dichotomy; it clearly appears in Plato's «Timaeus». Crucial to the …
Continuité et transformation des logiques corporelles
Narrative Use and the Practice of Fiction in The Book of Sindibad and The Tale of Beryn
This essay considers David Rudrum's claim that narrative is a type of language act that needs to be construed with regard to its use. Here this claim is related to one of the most influential literary traditions in the history of fiction: the Eastern Book of Sindibad and its Western offshoot, the Seven Sages of Rome, in which narrative use is of central significance. I focus more particularly on a tale embedded in the Eastern Book of Sindibad, “T…
Les gestes et la perception du mouvement dans l’art et la littérature
La compréhension d’un texte littéraire ou d’une œuvre picturale se fonde pour beaucoup sur notre capacité à exploiter notre intelligence kinésique. L’intelligence kinésique est la faculté qui nous permet d’élaborer des images motrices et des narrations kinésiques pour comprendre un verbe d’action ou un trope de mouvement, la description d’un geste ou d’un événement sensorimoteur. En situation réelle, nous reconnaissons aussi bien les similarités …
Medieval and Early Modern Authorship
Emotions in history and literature
Embodied Cognition, Kinaesthetic Knowledge, and Kinesic Imagination in Literature and Visual Arts
Embodied cognition, kinaesthetic knowledge, and kinesic imagination are central not only to acts of creation but also to the reception of artworks. This article substantiates this claim by focusing on sensorimotricity in art and literature, presenting two sets of analytical distinctions that pertain to dynamics in gesture and movement. The first set of distinctions—kinesis, kinaesthesia, kinetics, and kinematics—and the second set—timing, tempo, …
Inventive embodiment and sensorial imagination in medieval drawings: The marginalia of the Walters Book of Hours MS W.102
This article examines a series of remarkable English drawings penned around 1300 by an anonymous artist in the margins of a manuscript now held by the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore (Walters Book of Hours MS W.102). Rarely studied by art historians, these forty-seven marginalia are strikingly original and call for a new analytical approach if we are to understand their full implications. The method of kinesic analysis is used in this article to …
The Sense of Movement in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure
The Alliterative Morte Arthure and Stanzaic Morte Arthur narrate violent interactions and intense emotions that are predominantly conveyed by means of kinesis. When a literary work refers to kinesis, i.e., gestures, movements, facial expressions, and physical interactions, readers tend to infer the kinaesthetic valence of such information. The term kinaesthesia refers to the sense of movement. More systematically than their medieval sources, the …
Fleshing out the Facts: Cognition and Kinesic Specifications in Legal and Literary Reasoning
We produce kinesic specifications when we cognitively process sensorimotor concepts. For example, the sensorimotor concept of falling may be processed as a life-threatening event or a mere cause of fleeting embarrassment. This article considers the cognitive production of kinesic specifications in legal and literary reasoning, focusing on the acts of reading and judging as they appear in early modern amplifications of the Book of Genesis, written…
Emotional Pain and Self-Harm in the Prose Lancelot and the Alliterative Morte Arthure
Medieval romance often associates anger, sadness and distress with self-harm when these emotions reach a high level of intensity. In the Alliterative Morte Arthure , Arthur’s knights protest that the king is ‘blundering himself’ (that is, injuring himself) when mourning Gawain and feeling overwhelmed with sorrow. In the Prose Lancelot , Galehaut asks Lancelot, who has spent the night beset by heart-wrenching grief, why he is ‘killing himself’. In…
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