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The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature book cover

1st Edition

The Brain of Robert Frost A Cognitive Approach to Literature

By Norman N. Holland Copyright 1988
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1988,this book brings brain science to literary criticism. The Brain of Robert Frost combines psychoanalysis with the findings of brain research and cognitive psychology to model the way we create and respond to literature. Norman Holland draws three central ideas from ‘the mind’s new science’: the critical ‘supercharged’ period in infancy when individuality is formed; the... Read more
1.Thoughts About Brains 2. Reading Frost 3. Frost Reading 4. The Miller’s Wife and the Six Professors 5. ‘We Are Round’ 6. Reading and Writing, Codes and Canons 7. A Digression on Metaphors 8. Literary Process the Personal Brain 9. Hearing Ourselves Think.

Biography

Norman N. Holland was Milbauer Eminent Schoar at the University of Florida, USA and one of only a few literary theorists to have received psychoanalytic training.

Reviews of the original edition of The Brain of Robert Frost:

‘…Norman Holland offers us an ingenious, moving and quite convincing account of human literary endeavours.’ Howard Gardener, author of Art, Mind and Brain.

‘…brilliantly inventive…Here physiology, psychology, cybernetics, psycholinguistics, biography, pedagogy and literary theory meet to illumine the most radical faculties of mind..’ Ihab Hassan

‘…a marvellous exploration of how we comprehend both poems and poets. It is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the interpretive process.’ George Lakoff

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