Paleopoetics : the evolution of the preliterate imagination / Christopher Collins ; cover design, Martin N. Hinze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Christopher, author.

Contributor:

Hinze, Martin N., cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Psychological aspects.

Poetry.

Literature and science.

Cognition in literature.

Poetics--History--To 1500.

Poetics.

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Imagination in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Chichester, England : Columbia University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research that traverses evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective processes that shaped the human genus millions of years ago and prepared the human brain to play, imagine, empathize, and engage in fictive thought as mediated by language. A manifestation of the ?cognitive turn" in the humanities, this study calls for a broader, more integrated interpretation of the reading experience, one that restores our connection to the anc

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Some Notes on Dating and Nomenclature; Acknowledgments; one | The Idea of a Paleopoetics; Relitigating Plato v. Poiêsis; Big History; Rhetoric, Poetics, and Hermeneutics; The Presymbolic Mind; Symbolic Play and the Verbal Artifact; two | From Dualities to Dyads; Duality; Perception: The Parallel- Serial Dyad and Episodic Consciousness; Action and the Anatomy of Multitasking; Information Processing: The Parallel and Serial Modes; The Dyadic Pattern; three | Play and Instrumentality; Donald's Four Stages of Consciousness; Play in the Episodic Stage

Instrumentality in the Mimetic StageImitative Play in the Mimetic Stage; Preludes to Language; four | The World as We See It; Vision and the Visual Imagination; Parsing the Visible Umwelt; Spatial Frames of Reference; How Homo Became Sapient; Complementarity-The Limits of Human Knowledge?; five | Human Communication: FROM PRE-LANGUAGE TO PROTOLANGUAGE; Why Language?; From Pre-Language to Protolanguage and Beyond; Gesture: Index and Icon; Hearing Voices; Protolanguage, the Long Transition; six | Language: ITS PRELINGUISTIC INHERITANCE; The Rhetorical Motive; Language Play

Verbal Visuality: The Simulation of PerceptionVerbal Visuality: The Simulation of Action; The Rhetorical Imagination; seven | The Poetics of the Verbal Artifact; The Ritual and Poetic Genres; Oral Per for mance Style; Memory; Enacting the Verbal Artifact; Paralanguage, Protolanguage, and Oral Poetics; Epilogue | THE NEOPOETICS OF WRITING; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231531023

0231531028

OCLC:

826444441