
Cognitive Ecopoetics
A New Theory of Lyric
Sharon Lattig(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Published on 12. November 2020
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-350-06925-1 (ISBN)
Description
New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of one of the most important literary genres: the lyric poem. In Cognitive Ecopoetics, Sharon Lattig brings these two schools of criticism together for the first time to consider the ways in which lyric forms re-enact cognitive processes of the mind and brain. Along the way the book reads anew the long history of the lyric, from Andrew Marvell, through canonical poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson to contemporary writers such as Susan Howe and Charles Olson.
Reviews / Votes
Lattig's deeply learned, patiently unfolded, and surprisingly contrary pursuit of a new environmental theory of lyric, as meticulous as it is broad in its historical scope, asks us (whether or not we agree with her conclusions) to reexamine our own assumptions about perception, language, materiality, thought and feeling, as convoked by the transformative and, to use Lattig's word, respeciating occasion of lyric poetry. This is a strong argument for an embodied poetics and for a language in and of the environment, as well as an admirably careful work of cross-disciplinary scholarship, whose convincing readings bring neuroscience and theories of perception and cognition to the riddle of the lyric's persistence. A brilliant, ambitious and thought-provoking defense of poetry. -- Jonathan Skinner, Associate Professor in English, University of Warwick, UKMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-06925-1 (9781350069251)
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Person
Sharon Lattig teaches at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Content
Introduction: The Region of the Song
Chapter One: Occasional Cries: Prelude to Lyric
Chapter Two: Dwelling with the Possible: Lyric Obscurity and Embedded Perception
Chapter Three: This Is Where the Meanings Are: Lyric Disjunction and Perceptual Shattering
Chapter Four: Acts of the Mind: Lyric Action and the Whole of Perception
Chapter One: Occasional Cries: Prelude to Lyric
Chapter Two: Dwelling with the Possible: Lyric Obscurity and Embedded Perception
Chapter Three: This Is Where the Meanings Are: Lyric Disjunction and Perceptual Shattering
Chapter Four: Acts of the Mind: Lyric Action and the Whole of Perception