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| 說明 | 1 online resource (xii, 263 p.) |
| 附註 | 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' |
| Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index |
| ""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 |
| Description based on print version |
| 主題 | English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism |
| Psychology and literature -- History -- 18th century |
| Interest (Psychology) |
| Cognition in literature |
| Discourse analysis, Literary |
| LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology |
| LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
| Electronic books. |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9781137313607 (electronic bk.) |
| 1137313609 (electronic bk.) |
