The Lyric in the Age of the Brain / Nikki Skillman.
Skillman, Nikki, author.
2016
PS305
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Title The Lyric in the Age of the Brain / Nikki Skillman.
Author Skillman, Nikki, author.
ISBN 9780674970076
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674970076
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (320 p.) : 1 halftone
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674970076 doi
Call Number PS305
Alternate Call Number HU 1760
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.009
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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In EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2016
Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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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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