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Neopoetics : the evolution of the literate imagination / Christopher Collins.
LIBRA P99 .C5698 2017
Available from offsite location
- 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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