Inventing the Language to Tell It : : Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness / / George Hart.
From 1920 until his death in 1962, consciousness and its effect on the natural world was Robinson Jeffers’s obsession. Understanding and explaining the biological basis of mind is one of the towering challenges of modern science to this day, and Jeffers’s poetic experiment is an important contributi...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Robinson Jeffers’s Sacramental Poetics
- 1. Rock, Bark, and Blood: Sacramental Poetics and West Coast Nature Poetry
- 2. The Strain in the Skull: Biopoetics and the Biology of Consciousness
- 3. The Whole Mind: Brains, Biology, and Bioregion in the Middle Period
- 4. To Keep One’s Own Integrity: “The Inhumanist” and the Crisis of Holism
- 5. The Wound in the Brain: The Discoveries of the Later Poetry
- Conclusion: The Jeffers Influence and the Middle Generation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index