Poetic Conventions As Cognitive Fossils (Cognition And Poetics)

Introduction: where do conventions come from? -- Some implications of D'Andrade's assumptions -- Poetic conventions as fossilized cognitive devices: the case of medieval and Renaissance poetics -- Frozen formulae and expressive force: the ballad "Edward"--Artistic devices and mystical qualities in Hebrew devotional poems -- Artistic devices and mystical qualities in Hebrew devotional poems -- The translated poem as an esthetic object how conventions constrain one another in a poem -- The translated poem as an esthetic object how conventions constrain one another in a poem -- Some remarks on the nature of trochees and iambs and their relationship to other meters

• | Author: Reuven Tsur
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0190634693
• | ISBN-13: 9780190634698