Displaying 1 of 1 2007 Format: Book Author: Lehrer, Jonah. Title: Proust was a neuroscientist / Jonah Lehrer. Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007. Description: xii, 242 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm Summary: Details the contributions of an unlikely group of artists--including artist Paul Cézanne, chef Auguste Escoffier, writer Gertrude Stein, and novelist Marcel Proust--to an understanding of the inner workings of the human brain. Subjects: Neurosciences and the arts. Neurosciences -- History. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-230) and index. Contents: Walt Whitman : The substance of feeling -- George Eliot : The biology of freedom -- Auguste Escoffier : The essence of taste -- Marcel Proust : The method of memory -- Paul Cézanne : The process of sight -- Igor Stravinsky : The source of music -- Gertrude Stein : The structure of language -- Virginia Woolf : The emergent self. Web Site: Sample text Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 2007008518 ISBN: 9780618620104 9780547085906 0547085907 0618620109 Other Number: 85624019 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 202599 # Local items in: 0 # System items in: 0 Call Number: 700.105 Lehrer Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
