A Cognitive Approach to John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets [electronic resource] /
Winkelman, Michael A.author.
Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting literature. This study applies recent breakthroughs from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology in order to deepen our understanding of John Donne's Songs and Sonnets.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Editors' Preface                       ; Preface              ; Acknowledgments                      ; Abbreviations and References                                   ; Introduction: "Love Sometimes Would Contemplate, Sometimes Do"                                                                     ; 1. "My Verse, the Strict Map of My Misery": Of Metaphors and Mindscapes                                                                              ; 2. The Composing of "A Jeat Ring Sent"
or Donne as Thinker and Imaginator                                                                                 3. "A Lecture, Love, in Loves Philosophy": Donne's Illuminating Anatomizations                                                                                     ; 4. "John Donne, Anne Donne, Vn-done"? A Biocultural Reassessment of Their Scandalous Marriage
5. "Firme Substantial Love": Donne's Penetrating Observations                                                                    6. "The Very Ecstasy of Love": Prescriptions for Bliss in Irvine Welsh and John Donne                                                                                            ; 7. Sighs and Tears: Biological Costly Signals and Donne's "Whining Po ë try"                                                                                   ; 8. " Verse That Drawes Natures Workes, from Natures Law"
or, Prolegomenon to a Darwinian Defense of Literature                                                                                                                      Conclusion: Why Cognitive Science Matters Now                                                    ; Appendix: A Brief Review of Scholarship                                              ; Notes            ; Works Cited                  ; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting literature. This study applies recent breakthroughs from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology in order to deepen our understanding of John Donne's Songs and Sonnets.
Donne, John, 1572-1631
Literature, Modern.
Consciousness.
British literature.
America-Literatures.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Cognitive Psychology.
British and Irish Literature.
North American Literature.