Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century [electronic resource] /
Koehler, M.author.
By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention.
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Cover; Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Let Me Be All, but My Attention, Dead"; What Is Attention?; A Cognitive Approach to Eighteenth-Century Poems; How the Book Proceeds; Chapter 1:  History and Theory of Attention in the Eighteenth Century; The Filter of Attention; Passive Attention in Locke and Leibniz; Multitasking; The Roots of Active Attention; Attention and Memory; Attention as a Method of Philosophers; The Case of Children and Education; Novelty and Curiosity; The Case of the Sublime
Deliberate Aesthetic Attention and Its UndoingConclusion; Chapter 2:  The Filter of Attention in Mock-Heroic Poetry; Cognitive Models of Attention; A Filter War; A Call for Circumspection; Chapter 3:  Odes of Absorption; Chapter 4:  Multiple Sensory Modalities of Attention; Mutual Enhancement; Distress and the Senses; Nocturnal Poetry and the Senses; Chapter 5:  Landscape Poetry I The Discovery of Receptivity; Stages of Attention to Landscape; Psychoanalytic Models of Attention; Creative Cognition; Experiments in Receptivity; Thomson's Rhapsodic Receptivity; Scenes of Obstructed Attention
Rushing, Restless AttentionStages of Absorption: "The Desolated Prospect Thrills the Soul"; Chapter 6:  Landscape Poetry II The Practice of Receptivity; Chapter 7:  Cowper's Task of Attention; Cowper's Listening Practice; Pace; To Seize the Roving Thought; Distraction and Restoration; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention.
Literature—History and criticism.
Cognitive psychology.
British literature.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Literary History.
Cognitive Psychology.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.