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Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils contrasts two approaches to poetic conventions: the "culture-begets-culture" or "influence-hunting" approach, which traces conventions back to earlier cultural phenomena by mapping out their migrations; and the "constraints-seeking" or "cognitive-fossils" approach, that assumes that conventions originate in cognitive solutions to adaptation problems.
List of contents
- Preface - Margaret H. Freeman, Peter Schneck, Achim Stephan
- Chapter 1 - Where Do Conventions Come from?
- Chapter 2 - Some Implications of D'Andrade's Assumptions
- Chapter 3 - Poetic Conventions as Fossilized Cognitive Devices: The Case of Medieval and Renaissance Poetics
- Chapter 4 - Frozen Formulae and Expressive Force: The Ballad "Edward"
- Chapter 5 - Artistic Devices and Mystical Qualities in Hebrew Devotional Poems
- Chapter 6 - Figurative Language and Socio-Cultural Background: Hebrew Poetry as a Test Case - A Cognitive Approach
- Chapter 7 - The Translated Poem as an Esthetic Object: How Conventions Constrain One Another in a Poem
- Chapter 8 - More is Up - Some of the Time
- Chapter 9 - Some Remarks on the Nature of Trochees and Iambs and their Relationship to Other Meters
- Chapter 10 - Poetic Language and the Psychopathology of Everyday Life
- References
About the author
Reuven Tsur is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature and Literary Theory at Tel Aviv University. In 2009, he was awarded the Israel Prize in general literature and in 2013 received an honorary doctorate from Osnabrück University.
Summary
Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils contrasts two approaches to poetic conventions: the "culture-begets-culture" or "influence-hunting" approach, which traces conventions back to earlier cultural phenomena by mapping out their migrations; and the "constraints-seeking" or "cognitive-fossils" approach, that assumes that conventions originate in cognitive solutions to adaptation problems.
