TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skillman,Nikki
TI  - The Lyric in the Age of the Brain
SN  - 9780674545120
U1  - 811.009 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - American poetry
KW  - Explication
KW  - Art and science
KW  - Creative ability
KW  - Experimental poetry, American
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674970076
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674970076
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674970076/original
ER  -