Neopoetics
The Evolution of the Literate Imagination
1st Edition
Published on 19. December 2016
344 pages
978-0-231-54288-3 (ISBN)
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In Neopoetics, Collins turns his attention to the cognitive evolution of the writing-ready brain. Further integrating neuroscience into the popular field of cognitive poetics, he adds empirical depth to our study of literary texts and verbal imagination and offers a whole new way to look at reading, writing, and creative expression.
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Christopher Collins is professor emeritus of English at New York University. His many books include Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination (Columbia, 2013); Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse (1996); The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination (1991); and Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia (1991).
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Innovating Ourselves
2. Narrative Memory
3. The Dancing, Singing Daughters of Memory
4. Visual Instruments of Memory
5. Poets' Play and Plato's Poetics
6. Writing for the Voice
7. Writing and the Reading Mind
Epilogue: Poetics and the Making of the Modern Self
Appendix: Three Horatian Texts
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
1. Innovating Ourselves
2. Narrative Memory
3. The Dancing, Singing Daughters of Memory
4. Visual Instruments of Memory
5. Poets' Play and Plato's Poetics
6. Writing for the Voice
7. Writing and the Reading Mind
Epilogue: Poetics and the Making of the Modern Self
Appendix: Three Horatian Texts
Notes
Bibliography
Index
