Just in Time av G. Gabrielle Starr

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<b>Literature and neuroscience come together to illuminate the human experience of beauty, which unfolds in time.</b><br><br>How does beauty exist in time? This is Gabrielle Starr’s central concern in <i>Just in Time</i> as she explores the experience of beauty not as an abstraction, but as the result of psychological and neurological processes in which time is central. Starr shows that aesthetic experience has temporal scale. Starr, a literary scholar and pioneer in the field and method of neuroaesthetics, which seeks the neurological basis of aesthetic experience, applies this methodology to the study of beauty in literature, considering such authors as Rita Dove, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Henry James, Toni Morrison, and Wallace Stevens, as well as the artists Dawoud Bey and Jasper Johns.<br><br><br><i>Just in Time</i> is richly informed by the methods and findings of neuroscientists, whose instruments let them investigate encounters with art down to the millisecond, but