Titelaufnahme

Introduction: The Region of the Song -- Occasional Cries: Prelude to Lyric -- Dwelling with the Possible: Lyric Obscurity and Embedded Perception -- This Is Where the Meanings Are: Lyric Disjunction and Perceptual Shattering -- Acts of the Mind: Lyric Action and the Whole of Perception

"New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of one of the most important literary genres: the lyric poem. In Cognitive Ecopoetics, Sharon Lattig brings these two schools of criticism together for the first time to consider the ways in which lyric forms re-enact cognitive processes of the mind and brain. Along the way the book reads anew the long history of the lyric, from Andrew Marvell, through canonical poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson to contemporary writers such as Susan Howe and Charles Olson"