The Lyric in the Age of the Brain

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism
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Author: Nikki Skillman ISBN: 9780674970090
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: June 6, 2016
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Nikki Skillman
ISBN: 9780674970090
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: June 6, 2016
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

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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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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