Neopoetics the evolution of the literate imagination 9780231542883, 9780231176866, 0231542887
The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for sch
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English Pages 320 Year 2017
Table of contents :
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.
