Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Koehler is an associate professor of English at Otterbein University. Klappentext By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention. Zusammenfassung By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry! this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'Let me be all, but my attention, dead' History and Theory of Attention in the Eighteenth Century The Filter of Attention and Indissoluble Attractors in Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poetry Multiple Sensory Modalities of Attention Landscape Poetry I: The Discovery of Receptivity Landscape Poetry II: The Practice of Receptivity Cowper's Task of Attention Odes of Absorption 'Attention is everywhere'

List of contents

Introduction: 'Let me be all, but my attention, dead' History and Theory of Attention in the Eighteenth Century The Filter of Attention and Indissoluble Attractors in Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poetry Multiple Sensory Modalities of Attention Landscape Poetry I: The Discovery of Receptivity Landscape Poetry II: The Practice of Receptivity Cowper's Task of Attention Odes of Absorption 'Attention is everywhere'

Product details

• Authors: M Koehler, M. Koehler, Margaret Koehler, KOEHLER MARGARET
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2012
• EAN: 9781137031129
• ISBN: 978-1-137-03112-9
• No. of pages: 275
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Poetry, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, cognitive psychology, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection