Neopoetics : the evolution of the literate imagination

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Neopoetics : the evolution of the literate imagination

Title remainder

the evolution of the literate imagination

Statement of responsibility

Christopher Collins

Creator

• Collins, Christopher

Author

• Collins, Christopher

Subject

• Evolutionary psychology
• Evolutionary psychology
• History
• Imagination
• Kognition
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
• Language and languages -- Origin
• Language and languages -- Origin
• Literaturpsychologie
• Literaturtheorie
• Neurolinguistics
• Neurolinguistics
• Brain -- Evolution
• Poetics
• Poetics -- History -- To 1500
• Poetry -- Psychological aspects
• Poetry -- Psychological aspects
• Semiotics
• Semiotics
• Semiotik
• To 1500
• Visual pathways
• Visual pathways
• Neurolinguistik
• Brain -- Evolution

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative tool and as a means of fashioning other communicative tools-stories, songs, and rituals. 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. Collins begins Neopoetics with the early use of visual signs, first as reminders of narrative episodes and then as conventional symbols representing actual speech sounds. Next he examines the implications of written texts for the play of the auditory and visual imagination. To exemplify this long transition from oral to literate artistry, Collins examines a wide array of classical texts--from Homer and Hesiod to Plato and Aristotle and from the lyric innovations of Augustan Rome to the inner dialogues of St. Augustine. In this work of "big history," Collins demonstrates how biological and cultural evolution collaborated to shape both literature and the brain we use to read it.--

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

Dewey number

302.2

Index

index present

Language note

In English

LC call number

P99

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography