Description |
1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) |
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' |
Summary |
""Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century" identifies a pervasive cultivation of attention in eighteenth-century poetry. The book argues that a plea from a 1692 ode by William Congreve-"Let me be all, but my attention, dead"--Embodies a wider aspiration in the period's poetry to explore overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention. It historicizes eighteenth-century accounts of attention and pioneers a link between the period's poetry and recent discussions of attention in cognitive psychology. It contributes to the largely neglected history of a psychological trait that has assumed a recent cultural urgency, and it repositions eighteenth-century poems as a collective model for assiduous reading and supple, wide-ranging attention"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index |
Notes |
Print version |
Subject |
English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Psychology and literature -- History -- 18th century
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Interest (Psychology)
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Cognition in literature.
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Discourse analysis, Literary
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literary criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Cognition in literature
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Discourse analysis, Literary
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English poetry
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Interest (Psychology)
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Psychology and literature
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Lyrik
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Englisch
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781137313607 |
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1137313609 |
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1299262686 |
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9781299262683 |
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9781349440726 |
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1349440728 |
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