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Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry book cover

1st Edition

Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry

By Suzanne Bailey Copyright 2010
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge
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Current work on speech pragmatics and visual thinking calls for a radical reassessment of the problem of obscurity or difficulty in Robert Browning’s work. In this innovative study, Bailey reinterprets Browning's life and work in the context of contemporary theories of language and attention, drawn from the cognitive sciences. Specifically, new readings of under-examined historical sources... Read more

Abbreviations for Correspondence Cited Acknowledgments Part One: Being Browning Introduction: Shadows and Light 1: A Grammar of Personality: The Riddle of Robert Browning 2: Containing Energy: Reading Browning and Barrett 3: Perception and Difference: Visual Biases 4: Attention Part Two: Browning’s Writing: Self-Representation, Cognitive Style, and Finding a Voice 5: Speech Pragmatics: Syntax and Style 6: "Perceptions Whole": Narrative Difficulty in the Early Poems 7: Finding a Voice: "Celerity" as Poetic Principle 8: The Subjective Browning 9: Celerity and its Consequences: The Later Poems Afterword: "Fruitful Asynchrony": Valuing Difference Appendix: Browning’s Father: Memory, Attention, Time Notes Bibliography Index

Biography

Suzanne Bailey is Associate Professor of English at Trent University.

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