The Lyric in the Age of the Brain / / 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 s...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 1 halftone |
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Table of 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