Forgetful Muses : Reading the Author in the Text /
Lancashire, Ian
Forgetful Muses : Reading the Author in the Text / Ian Lancashire. - 1 online resource (320 p.) : 18 halftones; 24 tables
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Distribution Graphs, and Tables -- Preface -- Credits and Sources -- Introduction: Finding the Author in the Text -- 1. Experiencing the Muse -- 2. Uttering -- 3. Cybertextuality -- 4. Poet-authors -- 5. Novelist-authors -- 6. Reading the Writer’s Own Anonymous -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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How can we understand and analyze the primarily unconscious process of writing? In this groundbreaking work of neuro-cognitive literary theory, Ian Lancashire maps the interplay of self-conscious critique and unconscious creativity.Forgetful Muses shows how a writer's own 'anonymous,' that part of the mind that creates language up to the point of consciousness, is the genesis of thought. Those thoughts are then articulated by an author's inner voice and become subject to critique by the mind's 'reader-editor.' The 'reader-editor' engages with the 'anonymous,' which uses this information to formulate new ideas. Drawing on author testimony, cybernetics, cognitive psychology, corpus linguistics, text analysis, the neurobiology of mental aging, and his own experiences, Lancashire's close readings of twelve authors, including Caedmon, Chaucer, Coleridge, Joyce, Christie, and Atwood, serve to illuminate a mystery we all share.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442640931 9781442686328
10.3138/9781442686328 doi
Authorship--Psychological aspects.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Psychological aspects.
Criticism--Psychological aspects.
Style, Literary.
DISCOUNT-B.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
801/.92
Forgetful Muses : Reading the Author in the Text / Ian Lancashire. - 1 online resource (320 p.) : 18 halftones; 24 tables
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Distribution Graphs, and Tables -- Preface -- Credits and Sources -- Introduction: Finding the Author in the Text -- 1. Experiencing the Muse -- 2. Uttering -- 3. Cybertextuality -- 4. Poet-authors -- 5. Novelist-authors -- 6. Reading the Writer’s Own Anonymous -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
How can we understand and analyze the primarily unconscious process of writing? In this groundbreaking work of neuro-cognitive literary theory, Ian Lancashire maps the interplay of self-conscious critique and unconscious creativity.Forgetful Muses shows how a writer's own 'anonymous,' that part of the mind that creates language up to the point of consciousness, is the genesis of thought. Those thoughts are then articulated by an author's inner voice and become subject to critique by the mind's 'reader-editor.' The 'reader-editor' engages with the 'anonymous,' which uses this information to formulate new ideas. Drawing on author testimony, cybernetics, cognitive psychology, corpus linguistics, text analysis, the neurobiology of mental aging, and his own experiences, Lancashire's close readings of twelve authors, including Caedmon, Chaucer, Coleridge, Joyce, Christie, and Atwood, serve to illuminate a mystery we all share.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442640931 9781442686328
10.3138/9781442686328 doi
Authorship--Psychological aspects.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Psychological aspects.
Criticism--Psychological aspects.
Style, Literary.
DISCOUNT-B.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
801/.92