TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins, Christopher
TI  - Paleopoetics: : the Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination
SN  - 9780231160926
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York:       
PB  - Columbia University,     
KW  -  Dyads
KW  -  Human communications
KW  -  Instrumentality
KW  - Verbal artifact
N1  - Bibliography 227-246p.; Index 247-251p
N2  - Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective processes that originally shaped the human genus millions of years ago and prepared the human brain to play, imagine, empathize, and engage in fictive thought as mediated by language. A manifestation of the "cognitive turn" in the humanities, Paleopoetics calls for a broader, more integrated interpretation of the reading experience, one that restores our connection to the ancient methods of thought production still resonating within us. Speaking with authority on the scientific aspects of cognitive poetics, Collins proposes reading literature using cognitive skills that predate language and writing
ER  -