'Kubla Khan'  Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality And Cognitive Style
Subtitle: A Study in Mental, Vocal And Critical Performance (Human Cognitive Processing)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published: February 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789027223692
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Study & Teaching; Language Arts & Disciplines; Poetry; Cognitive styles; Poetics; Psychological aspects; Language
Description: "This book conceives of "Kubla Khan" as of a hypnotic poem, in which the "obtrusive rhythms" produce a hypnotic, emotionally heightened response, giving false security to the "Platonic Censor", so that our imagination is left free to explore higher levels of uncertainty. Critics intolerant of uncertainty tend to account for the poem's effect by extraneous background information. The book consists of three parts employing different research methods."--Jacket.