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Paleopoetics : the evolution of the preliterate imagination / Christopher Collins.
Van Pelt Library PN1083.S43 C65 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Psychological aspects.
- Poetry.
- Literature and science.
- Cognition in literature.
- Poetics--History--To 1500.
- Poetics.
- History.
- Discourse analysis, Literary.
- Imagination in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 The Idea of a Paleopoetics 1
- Relitigating Plato v. Poiêsis 2
- Big History 8
- Rhetoric, Poetics, and Hermeneutics 10
- The Presymbolic Mind 19
- Symbolic Play and the Verbal Artifact 22
- 2 From Dualities to Dyads 28
- Duality 29
- Perception: The Parallel-Serial Dyad and Episodic Consciousness 34
- Action and the Anatomy of Multitasking 37
- Information Processing: The Parallel and Serial Modes 42
- The Dyadic Pattern 48
- 3 Play and Instrumentality 57
- Donald's Four Stages of Consciousness 58
- Play in the Episodic Stage 62
- Instrumentality in the Mimetic Stage 68
- Imitative Play in the Mimetic Stage 72
- Preludes to Language 75
- 4 The World as We See It 82
- Vision and the Visual Imagination 83
- Parsing the Visible Umwelt 88
- Spatial Frames of Reference 93
- How Homo Became Sapient 96
- Complementarity-The Limits of Human Knowledge? 100
- 5 Human Communication: From Pre-Language to Protolanguage 106
- Why Language? 108
- From Pre-Language to Protolanguage and Beyond 114
- Gesture: Index and Icon 121
- Hearing Voices 129
- Protolanguage, the Long Transition 136
- 6 Language: Its Prelinguistic Inheritance 141
- The Rhetorical Motive 142
- Language Play 146
- Verbal Visuality: The Simulation of Perception 153
- Verbal Visuality: The Simulation of Action 160
- The Rhetorical Imagination 168
- 7 The Poetics of the Verbal Artifact 175
- The Ritual and Poetic Genres 176
- Oral Performance Style 183
- Memory 189
- Enacting the Verbal Artifact 196
- Paralanguage, Protolanguage, and Oral Poetics 200
- Epilogue: The Neopoetics of Writing 206
- Notes 215
- Bibliography 227
- Index 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231160926
- 0231160925
- 9780231531023
- 0231531028
- OCLC:
- 794366461
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