Title Poetry of attention in the eighteenth century / Margaret Koehler

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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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 Psychology and literature -- History -- 18th century Interest (Psychology) Cognition in literature. Discourse analysis, Literary literary criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Cognition in literature Discourse analysis, Literary English poetry Interest (Psychology) Psychology and literature Lyrik Englisch Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137313607 1137313609 1299262686 9781299262683 9781349440726 1349440728

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