Title: The brain of Robert Frost
Subtitle: a cognitive approach to literature
Description: In his newest book, Norman Holland brings brain science to literary criticism. The Brain of Robert Frost combines psychoanalysis with the revolutionary new findings of brain research and cognitive psychology to model the way we create and respond to literature. Holland draws three central ideas from "the mind's new science": the critical "supercharged" period in infancy when individuality is formed; the binding of emotion to intellect deep in the old brain; the top-down, inside-out, feedback processing of language in the new. Then, using Robert Frost as an example both of a writer and a reader, and comparing Frost's reading of a poem to readings by six professors of literature, Holland builds a new, powerful way of thinking about literary criticsim and teaching. - Back cover.
Subjects: Cognition in literature, Consciousness in literature, Psychoanalysis and literature, Critique et interprétation, Psychological aspects of Poetry, Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Brain, Case studies, Cognition, Psychological aspects, Psychanalyse et littérature, Poetry as Topic, Cerveau, Cas, Études de, Psychoanalytic Interpretation, Literature, history and criticism, Frost, robert, 1874-1963
Places: United States
People: Robert Frost (1874-1963)