LEADER 03677nam 22006255 450 001 996331943803316 005 20190708092533.0 010 $a0-231-54288-7 024 7 $a10.7312/coll17686 035 $a(CKB)3710000000954493 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4730878 035 $a(DE-B1597)478139 035 $a(OCoLC)950751142 035 $a(OCoLC)979739692 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231542883 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000954493 100 $a20190708d2016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aNeopoetics $eThe Evolution of the Literate Imagination /$fChristopher Collins 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cColumbia University Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (345 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-231-17686-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tOne. Innovating Ourselves -- $tTwo. Narrative Memory -- $tThree. The Dancing, Singing Daughters of Memory -- $tFour. Visual Instruments of Memory -- $tFive. Poets' Play and Plato's Poetics -- $tSix. Writing for the Voice -- $tSeven. Writing and the Reading Mind -- $tEpilogue. Poetics and the Making of the Modern Self -- $tAppendix. Three Horatian Texts -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aVisual pathways 606 $aLanguage and languages$xOrigin 606 $aPoetry$xPsychological aspects 606 $aPoetics$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aEvolutionary psychology 606 $aBrain$xEvolution 606 $aNeurolinguistics 615 0$aSemiotics. 615 0$aVisual pathways. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xOrigin. 615 0$aPoetry$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aPoetics$xHistory 615 0$aEvolutionary psychology. 615 0$aBrain$xEvolution. 615 0$aNeurolinguistics. 676 $a302.2 686 $aEC 1820$2rvk 700 $aCollins$b Christopher, $01038429 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996331943803316 996 $aNeopoetics$92789293 997 $aUNISA