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The Lyric in the Age of the Brain / Nikki Skillman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 1 halftoneContent type:
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  • 9780674545120
  • 9780674970076
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811.009 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Lyric in the Age of the Brain -- 1. Robert Lowell and the Chemistry of Character -- 2. Physiological Thinking: Robert Creeley and A. R. Ammons -- 3. James Merrill’s Embodied Memory -- 4. John Ashbery’s Mindlessness -- 5. Jorie Graham and the Ethics of the Eye -- Conclusion: Anti-Lyric in the Age of the Brain -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets—caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors—struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Lyric in the Age of the Brain -- 1. Robert Lowell and the Chemistry of Character -- 2. Physiological Thinking: Robert Creeley and A. R. Ammons -- 3. James Merrill’s Embodied Memory -- 4. John Ashbery’s Mindlessness -- 5. Jorie Graham and the Ethics of the Eye -- Conclusion: Anti-Lyric in the Age of the Brain -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets—caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors—struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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