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28%OFFChristopher Collins - Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination - 9780231160933 - V9780231160933
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Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination

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Description for Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; JHMC; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective processes that originally shaped the human genus millions of years ago and prepared the human brain to play, imagine, empathize, and engage in fictive thought as mediated by language. A manifestation of the "cognitive turn" in the humanities, Paleopoetics calls for a broader, more integrated interpretation of the reading experience, one that restores our connection to the ancient methods of thought production still resonating within us. Speaking with authority on the scientific aspects of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231160933
SKU
V9780231160933
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About Christopher Collins
Christopher Collins is professor emeritus of English at New York University. He is the author of several books, including Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture; Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia; and The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination.

Reviews for Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination
This is a brilliant book. Its argument is careful and convincing and its presentation is erudite and elegant. Paleopoetics presents a history of the co-development of humanity and arts as mutually reinforcing and defining, ranging from deep prehistory to current concerns of arts and literary study. The ideas which are developed are drawn from a range of credible, multidisciplinary sources, ... Read more

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