Cognitive Style And Perceptual Difference In Browning S Poetry

Author : Suzanne Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136993336

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Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry by Suzanne Bailey Pdf

Current work on speech pragmatics and visual thinking calls for a radical reassessment of the problem of obscurity or difficulty in Robert Browning’s work. In this innovative study, Bailey reinterprets Browning's life and work in the context of contemporary theories of language and attention, drawn from the cognitive sciences. Specifically, new readings of under-examined historical sources show the extent to which Browning’s cognitive and perceptual worlds differed from the norm, aligning him with Victorians like Sir Francis Galton or fellow-artist William Wetmore Story. Exploring how perceptual biases are transformed in the language of the poems, Bailey demonstrates how the cognitive sciences can ground a new biographical practice, drawing attention to such matters as the creative process and the ethics of understanding individuals who think differently. In doing so, she re-energizes debates about this unusual Victorian poet, his later works, and the nature of literary style.

Author : Britta Martens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349928743

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The Poetry of Robert Browning by Britta Martens Pdf

Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes him a key figure in the wider field of Victorian studies. This stimulating introduction to Browning criticism provides an overview of the major responses to the poet's work over the last two hundred years. It offers an insightful guide to criticism from various theoretical perspectives, elucidating Browning's participation in Victorian debates about aesthetics, history, politics, religion, gender and psychology.

Author : Isobel Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317688808

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Victorian Poetry by Isobel Armstrong Pdf

In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as ‘a moralised form of romantic verse' and unearthed its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute new edition, Armstrong provides an entirely new preface that notes the key advances in the criticism of Victorian poetry since her classic work was first published in 1993. A new chapter on the alternative fin de siècle sees Armstrong discuss Michael Field, Rudyard Kipling, Alice Meynell and a selection of Hardy lyrics. The extensive bibliography acts as a key resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : John Blades
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350309425

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Robert Browning: The Poems by John Blades Pdf

This stimulating study takes a fresh look at Browning's poetry and at some of the key themes that run through his work. Part I uses carefully selected extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines Browning's life, contexts and a sample of criticism. Using some of Browning's most widely studied poems, this book will develop students' close reading technique and help them to articulate their own responses to poetry. The volume is an ideal introductory guide for A Level and undergraduate English Literature students, or anyone studying Browning's poems for the first time.

Author : Britta Martens
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409423041

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Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy by Britta Martens Pdf

Taking an original approach to Robert Browning's poetics, Britta Martens focuses on a corpus of relatively neglected poems in Browning's own voice in which he reflects on his poetry, his self-conceptualization and his place in the poetic tradition. She analyzes his work in relation to Romanticism, Victorian reactions to the Romantic legacy, and wider nineteenth-century changes in poetic taste, to argue that in these poems, as in his more frequently studied dramatic monologues, Browning deploys varied dramatic methods of self-representation, often critically and ironically exposing the biases and limitations of the seemingly authoritative speaker 'Browning'. The poems thus become devices for Browning's detached evaluation of his own and of others' poetics, an evaluation never fully explicit but presented with elusive economy for the astute reader to interpret. The confrontation between the personal authorial voice and the dramatic voice in these poems provides revealing insights into the poet's highly self-conscious, conflicted and sustained engagement with the Romantic tradition and the diversely challenging reader expectations that he faces in a post-Romantic age. As the Victorian most rigorous in his rejection of Romantic self-expression, Browning is a key transitional figure between the sharply antagonistic periods of Romanticism and Modernism. He is also, as Martens persuasively demonstrates, a poet of complex contradictions and an illuminating case study for addressing the perennial issues of voice, authorial authority and self-reference. --Publisher description.

Author : Jane Stabler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199590247

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The Artistry of Exile by Jane Stabler Pdf

The Artistry of Exile is a new study of one of the most important myths of nineteenth-century literature. Romantic poetry abounds with allusions to the loss of Eden and the isolation of figures who are 'sick for home'. This book explores the way such thematic preoccupations are modified by the material reality of enforced travel away from home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English poetry
ISBN : MINN:31951P01156857F

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Victorian Poetry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498710

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Daisy Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Americans
ISBN : 0750534249

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My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin Pdf

Gorgeous, spirited and extravagantly rich, Cora Cash is the closest thing 1890s New York society has to a princess. Her masquerade ball is the prelude to a campaign that will see her mother whisk Cora to Europe, where Mrs Cash wants nothing less than a title for her daughter. In England, impoverished blue-bloods are queueing up for introductions to American heiresses, overlooking the sometimes lowly origins of their fortunes. Cora makes a dazzling impression, but the English aristocracy is a realm fraught with arcane rules and pitfalls, and there are those less than eager to welcome a wealthy outsider...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011675480

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1670 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015079870898

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Current Index to Journals in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
Publisher : Key Porter Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015048719051

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Brazilian Journal by Patricia Kathleen Page Pdf

In 1957, P.K. Page travelled to Brazil as the wife of Canada's ambassador, Arthur Irwin. Her impressions and adventures are recounted in this diary, from the tropic lushness to the ponderous and mystifying official duties.

Author : Clyde de L. Ryals
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780814203521

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Becoming Browning by Clyde de L. Ryals Pdf

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307477729

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Pdf

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

Author : Chloe Harrison,Louise Nuttall,Peter Stockwell,Wenjuan Yuan
Publisher : Linguistic Approaches to Literature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : 902723406X

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Cognitive Grammar in Literature by Chloe Harrison,Louise Nuttall,Peter Stockwell,Wenjuan Yuan Pdf

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Sassoon, Balassi, and Dylan Thomas, as well as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Barrett Browning, Whitman, Owen and others. The application of Cognitive Grammar allows the discussion of meaning, translation, ambience, action, reflection, multimodality, empathy, experience and literariness itself to be conducted in newly valid ways. With a Foreword by the creator of Cognitive Grammar, Ronald Langacker, and an Afterword by the cognitive scientist Todd Oakley, the book represents the latest advance in literary linguistics, cognitive poetics and literary critical practice.