Title: 'Kubla Khan'  Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality And Cognitive Style
First published: February 28, 2006
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.
Subjects: Poetics, Psychological aspects, Cognitive styles, Coleridge, samuel taylor, 1772-1834