03677nam 22006255 450 99633194380331620190708092533.00-231-54288-710.7312/coll17686(CKB)3710000000954493(MiAaPQ)EBC4730878(DE-B1597)478139(OCoLC)950751142(OCoLC)979739692(DE-B1597)9780231542883(EXLCZ)99371000000095449320190708d2016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierNeopoetics The Evolution of the Literate Imagination /Christopher CollinsNew York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (345 pages) illustrations0-231-17686-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One. Innovating Ourselves -- Two. Narrative Memory -- Three. The Dancing, Singing Daughters of Memory -- Four. Visual Instruments of Memory -- Five. Poets' Play and Plato's Poetics -- Six. Writing for the Voice -- Seven. Writing and the Reading Mind -- Epilogue. Poetics and the Making of the Modern Self -- Appendix. Three Horatian Texts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThe 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.SemioticsVisual pathwaysLanguage and languagesOriginPoetryPsychological aspectsPoeticsHistoryTo 1500Evolutionary psychologyBrainEvolutionNeurolinguisticsSemiotics.Visual pathways.Language and languagesOrigin.PoetryPsychological aspects.PoeticsHistoryEvolutionary psychology.BrainEvolution.Neurolinguistics.302.2EC 1820rvkCollins Christopher, 1038429DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996331943803316Neopoetics2789293UNISA