Poetry of attention in the eighteent...
Koehler, Margaret, (1972-)

 

  • Poetry of attention in the eighteenth century[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 821/.509353
    書名/作者: Poetry of attention in the eighteenth century/ Margaret Koehler.
    作者: Koehler, Margaret,
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (xii, 263 p.)
    標題: Discourse analysis, Literary.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    標題: PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    標題: English poetry - History and criticism. - 18th century
    標題: Psychology and literature - History - 18th century.
    標題: Interest (Psychology)
    標題: Cognition in literature.
    ISBN: 9781137313607 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137313609 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.
    內容註: Introduction: 'Let me be all, but my attention, dead' -- History and Theory of Attention in the Eighteenth Century -- The Filter of Attention and Indissoluble Attractors in Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poetry -- Multiple Sensory Modalities of Attention -- Landscape Poetry I: The Discovery of Receptivity -- Landscape Poetry II: The Practice of Receptivity -- Cowper's Task of Attention -- Odes of Absorption -- 'Attention is everywhere'.
    摘要、提要註: ""Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century" identifies a pervasive cultivation of attention in eighteenth-century poetry. The book argues that a plea from a 1692 ode by William Congreve-"Let me be all, but my attention, dead"-embodies a wider aspiration in the period's poetry to explore overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention. It historicizes eighteenth-century accounts of attention and pioneers a link between the period's poetry and recent discussions of attention in cognitive psychology. It contributes to the largely neglected history of a psychological trait that has assumed a recent cultural urgency, and it repositions eighteenth-century poems as a collective model for assiduous reading and supple, wide-ranging attention"--
    電子資源: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
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