Why Lyrics Last - Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeares Sonnets

Informationen zum Autor Brian Boyd! University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English! University of Auckland! is the world's foremost authority on the works of Nabokov. Klappentext Subtitled "Evolution! Cognition & Shakespeare's Sonnets". Zusammenfassung Why Lyrics Last turns an evolutionary lens on lyric verse, placing the writing of verse within the human disposition to play with pattern. Boyd takes as an extended example the many patterns to be found within Shakespeare’s Sonnets. There, the Bard avoids all narrative and demonstrates the power that verse can have when liberated of story.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Boyd, Boyd Brian
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9780674065642
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06564-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights