The Lyric in the Age of the Brain /
Skillman, Nikki,
The Lyric in the Age of the Brain / Nikki Skillman. - 1 online resource : 1 halftone
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Lyric in the Age of the Brain -- 1. Robert Lowell and the Chemistry of Character -- 2. Physiological Thinking: Robert Creeley and A. R. Ammons -- 3. James Merrill's Embodied Memory -- 4. John Ashbery's Mindlessness -- 5. Jorie Graham and the Ethics of the Eye -- Conclusion: Anti-Lyric in the Age of the Brain -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets-caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors-struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674970076
10.4159/9780674970076 doi
The Lyric in the Age of the Brain / Nikki Skillman. - 1 online resource : 1 halftone
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Lyric in the Age of the Brain -- 1. Robert Lowell and the Chemistry of Character -- 2. Physiological Thinking: Robert Creeley and A. R. Ammons -- 3. James Merrill's Embodied Memory -- 4. John Ashbery's Mindlessness -- 5. Jorie Graham and the Ethics of the Eye -- Conclusion: Anti-Lyric in the Age of the Brain -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets-caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors-struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674970076
10.4159/9780674970076 doi