M. Koehler

Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-03112-9
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 263
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9781137031129
• ISBN-10: 1137031123
• Artikelnr.: 35687190

Autorenporträt

Margaret Koehler is an associate professor of English at Otterbein University.

Inhaltsangabe

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'