1st Edition
Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory Russian Literary Mnemonics
By Mikhail Gronas
Copyright 2011
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories of past reading experiences shape the ways in which we react to literary works. The book also... Read more
Note on Transliteration and Translations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Mnemonic Critics: Conceptual Metaphor in Literary Judgments 2: Mnemonic Readers: The Literary Canon and Mnemonic Survival 3: Mnemonic Lines: The Social Uses of Memorized Poetry 4: Mnemonic Poets: The Tip-of-the-Tongue State, the Saussurean Anagram, and Mechanisms of Mnemonic Creativity Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Mikhail Gronas is Assistant Professor in Russian Literature at Dartmouth College.
