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Neopoetics : the evolution of the literate imagination / Christopher Collins.

LIBRA P99 .C5698 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Collins, Christopher, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Semiotics.
Visual pathways.
Language and languages--Origin.
Language and languages.
Poetry--Psychological aspects.
Poetry.
Poetics--History--To 1500.
Poetics.
History.
Evolutionary psychology.
Brain--Evolution.
Brain.
Neurolinguistics.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xxi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Contents:
1 Innovating Ourselves 1
How We Got This Way... 2
Methods of Mmdsharing 8
The Coevolution of Signs and Technology 14
From Prououns to Speech Acts 21
Speaking to the Mind's Eye 29
Summary 33
2 Narrative Memory 35
Episodic Memory 36
The Mnemonics of Time 44
Narrative Time 48
Magic and the Mnemonics of Place 52
The Mnemonics of Person 58
Summary 65
3 The Dancing, Singing Daughters of Memory 67
Memory and the Mnemonics of Performance 68
The Coevolution of Music and Language 74
Music and the Emotional Brain 84
Dancing and the Inner Dance 93
Individual Differences and the Pleasures of Music 99
Summary 106
4 Visual Instruments of Memory 108
Depicting the Past 109
Imagining the Past 115
The Mnemonics of Writing 122
Public Verse and the Epitaph 128
Private Prose and the Personal Letter 133
Summary 140
5 Poets' Play and Plato's Poetics 142
Enter the Poet 143
Word Play 148
Plato on Poetic Lies 157
Plato and the Imitative Imagination 164
Plato and the Formation of Genres 170
Summary 177
6 Writing for the Voice 180
Voces Paginarum 181
The Genealogy of the Lyric Voice 187
The Dramatic Lyric 197
The Epistolary Lyric 203
Voice and the Afterlife of Poets 210
Summary 217
7 Writing and the Reading Mind 219
Dyadic Stylistics 220
Reading Inner Writing 227
Lyric and Soliloquy 233
What Meter Does 239
Seeing What We Read 246
Summary 254.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-314) and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Collins, Christopher, author. Neopoetics
ISBN:
9780231176866
0231176864
OCLC:
965735517
Publisher Number:
40026642331

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