1998, ISBN: 9780773517400

Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson, Buch, Hardcover, McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informed Wordsworth's, Coleridge's, Tho… Plus…

Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson, Buch, Hardcover, McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informed Wordsworth's, Coleridge's, Thoreau's, Whitman's, and Dickinson's finest achievements and then, when blunted by illness or age, contributed to an attenuation of their creative power. He supplies a "sensory profile" or sensory history for each author and through close readings shows how this profile affected their relationship to the external world and their powers of symbolic perception. Using perspectives gleaned from the poets themselves and an understanding of the physiological ground of perception, McSweeney establishes a compelling theoretical basis for his approach. In clear and elegant prose, he studies the physical basis for aesthetic plenitude - such as the sensory manifold of synaesthesia - not only in the Romantic writers mentioned above but also in two Victorian poets, Hopkins and Tennyson. [PU: McGill-Queen's University Press], Seiten: 222, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998<

ISBN: 9780773517400

McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informed Wordsworth''s, Coleridge''s, Thoreau''s, Whitman''s, and Dickinson''s finest achievements and then, when blunted by illness or age, co… Plus…

McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informed Wordsworth''s, Coleridge''s, Thoreau''s, Whitman''s, and Dickinson''s finest achievements and then, when blunted by illness or age, contributed to an attenuation of their creative power. He supplies a ""sensory profile"" or sensory history for each author and through close readings shows how this profile affected their relationship to the external world and their powers of symbolic perception. Using perspectives gleaned from the poets themselves and an understanding of the physiological ground of perception, McSweeney establishes a compelling theoretical basis for his approach. In clear and elegant prose, he studies the physical basis for aesthetic plenitude - such as the sensory manifold of synaesthesia - not only in the Romantic writers mentioned above but also in two Victorian poets, Hopkins and Tennyson. | The Language of the Senses by Kerry McSweeney Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Kerry McSweeney<

ISBN: 9780773517400

by Kerry McSweeney, PRINT ISBN: 9780773517400 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780773567276 ACP - McGill Queen's University Press eBook Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., McGill… Plus…

by Kerry McSweeney, PRINT ISBN: 9780773517400 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780773567276 ACP - McGill Queen's University Press eBook Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., McGill-Queen's University Press<

1998, ISBN: 9780773517400

Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: McGill-Queen's University Press], McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998