Paleopoetics - The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination

Using new data from neuroscience and evolutionary biology, an exploration of what the development of our species can tell us about the origins of language and the verbal imagination.

List of contents

PrefaceSome Notes on Dating and NomenclatureAcknowledgments1. The Idea of a Paleopoetics2. From Dualities to Dyads3. Play and Instrumentality4. The World as We See It5. Human Communication: From Pre- Language to Protolanguage6. Language: Its Prelinguistic Inheritance7. The Poetics of the Verbal ArtifactEpilogue: The Neopoetics of WritingNotesBibliographyIndex

About the author

Christopher Collins is professor emeritus of English at New York University. He earned his master's at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in comparative literature at Columbia 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.

Summary

Using new data from neuroscience and evolutionary biology, an exploration of what the development of our species can tell us about the origins of language and the verbal imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Collins, Christopher Collins, Collins Christopher
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2014
• EAN: 9780231160933
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16093-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Linguistics, Evolution, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Biology, life sciences, Cognition and cognitive psychology, language arts; linguistics; evolution