Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: What is Kinesic Intelligence?
Guillemette Bolens
Chapter 1: The Role of Kinesic Intelligence in Child Language Development
Aliyah Morgenstern
Chapter 2: Kinesic Intelligence in the Care Relationship: The Contribution of Clinical Psychology to Healthcare Provided to Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
Élise Ricadat
Chapter 3: Kinesic Intelligence and Historical Research: Gestural Communication at the Court of Henry VIII
Greg Walker
Chapter 4: Kinesic Intelligence in Common Law Reasoning
Maksymilian Del Mar
Chapter 5: Reading as Embodied Simulation: Literary Techniques and Intersubjective Collaboration
Paul B. Armstrong
Chapter 6: Why Love a Cat? An Anthropology of Human–Feline Kinesic Engagement On- and Off-line
Ellen Hertz
Chapter 7: Material Scent: Textiles beyond Touch
Jessica Hemmings
Index
Biography
Guillemette Bolens is Professor of Medieval and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is the author of several books, including The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012) and Kinesic Humor: Literature, Embodied Cognition, and the Dynamics of Gesture (OUP, 2021). Her work has been published in Poetics Today, Cahiers de narratologie, Studia Neophilologica, and Cogent Arts & Humanities.
