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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.