Lucy Alford

Forms of Poetic Attention

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Produktbeschreibung

Identifying a crucial link between poetic form and the forming of attention, Lucy Alford offers a new terminology for how poetic attention works and how attention becomes a subject and object of poetry. She combines close readings of a wide variety of poems with research in the philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology of attention.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 228mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780231187558
• ISBN-10: 0231187556
• Artikelnr.: 60590085

Autorenporträt

Lucy Alford is assistant professor of literature at Wake Forest University. Her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate, Literary Matters, the Warwick Review, Streetlight, and Atelier.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is Poetic Attention? Part I. Attending to Objects 1. Modes of Transitive Attention 2. Contemplation: Attention
s Reach 3. Desire: Attention
s Hunger 4. Recollection: Attending to the Departed Object 5. Imagination: Attention
s Poiesis Part II. Objectless Awareness 6. Modes of Intransitive Attention 7. Vigilance: States of Suspension 8. Resignation: Relinquishing the Object 9. Idleness: Doldrums and Gardens of Time 10. Boredom: End-Stopped Attention Coda: Toward a Practice of Poetic Attention Notes Bibliography Permission Credits Index