Poetry and Mindfulness : Interruption to a Journey / / by Bryan Walpert

• Autore: Walpert Bryan
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 125 p. 1 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 809.1
• Soggetto topico: Poetry; Literature - Philosophy; Art - Study and teaching; Poetry and Poetics; Literary Theory; Creativity and Arts Education
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care and education. The book argues that the benefits and insights mindfulness provides are also cultivated by the study of poetry. These benefits include a focus on the present, the ability to see through scripts and habits, a rethinking of subjectivity, and the development of ecological or systems thinking. Bryan Walpert employs close readings of traditional and experimental poetry and draws on scientific studies of the effects of mindfulness or reading literature on the brain. It argues the skills that poetry, like mindfulness, cultivates are useful beyond the page or classroom and ultimately are necessary to engage with such global issues as the environmental crisis.
• Titolo autorizzato: Poetry and Mindfulness
• ISBN: 3-319-68681-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255090303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave pivot.