LEADER 03686nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910791935303321 005 20230802012631.0 010 $a0-674-06484-4 010 $a0-674-06919-6 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674064843 035 $a(CKB)2560000000082529 035 $a(OCoLC)794003567 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10568017 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000659565 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11459162 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000659565 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10698295 035 $a(PQKB)10423351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301074 035 $a(DE-B1597)178159 035 $a(OCoLC)797908912 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674064843 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301074 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568017 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000082529 100 $a20111011d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhy lyrics last$b[electronic resource] $eevolution, cognition, and Shakespeare's sonnets /$fBrian Boyd 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-06564-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tLyrics Unlinked -- $t1. Poetry, Pattern, and Attention -- $t2. Lyric and Sonnet -- $t3. A First Shakespeare Sonnet -- $tFrom Sonnet to Sequence -- $t4. Love -- $t5. Love and Time -- $tBeyond Love -- $t6. Status -- $t7. Death -- $tShake-speares Sonnets, 1609 -- $t8. Lyric and Narrative -- $tEnvoi -- $tNotes. Bibliography. Index -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Why Lyrics Last, the internationally acclaimed critic Brian Boyd turns an evolutionary lens on the subject of lyric verse. He finds that lyric making, though it presents no advantages for the species in terms of survival and reproduction, is "universal across cultures because it fits constraints of the human mind." An evolutionary perspective- especially when coupled with insights from aesthetics and literary history-has much to tell us about both verse and the lyrical impulse. Boyd places the writing of lyrical verse within the human disposition "to play with pattern," and in an extended example he uncovers the many patterns to be found within Shakespeare's Sonnets. Shakespeare's bid for readership is unlike that of any sonneteer before him: he deliberately avoids all narrative, choosing to maximize the openness of the lyric and demonstrating the power that verse can have when liberated of story. In eschewing narrative, Shakespeare plays freely with patterns of other kinds: words, images, sounds, structures; emotions and moods; argument and analogy; and natural rhythms, in daily, seasonal, and life cycles. In the originality of his stratagems, and in their sheer number and variety, both within and between sonnets, Shakespeare outdoes all competitors. A reading of the Sonnets informed by evolution is primed to attend to these complexities and better able to appreciate Shakespeare's remarkable gambit for immortal fame. 606 $aSonnets, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLyric poetry$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aSonnets, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLyric poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a821/.3 700 $aBoyd$b Brian$f1952-$0676811 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791935303321 996 $aWhy lyrics last$93690064 997 $aUNINA