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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• VerfasserIn: Skillman, Nikki,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 1 halftone
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674970076; 9783110485103; 9783110485264; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674970076
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nikki Skillman.

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.