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Neopoetics : the evolution of the literate imagination /

The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collins, Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • One. Innovating ourselves. How we got this way ...
  • Methods of mindsharing
  • The coevolution of signs and technology
  • From pronouns to speech acts
  • Speaking to the mind's eye
  • Summary
  • Two. Narrative memory. Episodic memory
  • The mnemonics of time
  • Narrative time
  • Magic and the mnemonics of place
  • The mnemonics of person
  • Summary
  • Three. The dancing, singing daughters of memory. Memory and the mnemonics of performance
  • The coevolution of music and language
  • Music and the emotional brain
  • Dancing and the inner dance
  • Individual differences and the pleasures of music
  • Summary
  • Four. Visual instruments of memory. Depicting the past
  • Imagining the past
  • The mnemonics of writing
  • Public verse and the epitaph
  • Private prose and the personal letter
  • Summary
  • Five. Poets' play and Plato's poetics. Enter the poet
  • Word play
  • Plato on poetic lies
  • Plato and the imitative imagination
  • Plato and the formation of genres
  • Summary
  • Six. Writing for the voice. Voces paginarum
  • The genealogy of the lyric voice
  • The dramatic lyric
  • The epistolary lyric
  • Voice and the afterlife of poets
  • Summary
  • Seven. Writing and the reading mind. Dyadic stylistics
  • Reading inner writing
  • Lyric and soliloquy
  • What meter does
  • Seeing what we read
  • Summary
  • Epilogue. Poetics and the making of the modern self.