{"product_id":"suddenness-and-the-composition-of-poetic-thought-9781538153529","title":"Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterrogating the much-cherished concept of “poetic thinking,” this book focusses on what interview and draft materials reveal of how poets think while in the act of writing. With findings from the cognitive tradition, this book uses performance theory and philosophy to examine this brief, creative window of conscious attention. Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought draws out the implications of this radically curtailed view of consciousness on the poems and other texts we compose. Henrich von Kleist’s assertion that “it is not we, but a certain condition of ours which knows” emerges as central to this analysis of the thinking we perform in the very moments of composition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmploying an extensive archive of interview materials with major Anglophone poets, discussing how they think in the moments of composition, the book also provides a lucid account of the links between poetic composition and live performative thinking in the context of the early (pre)textual history of the Ancient Greeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA transdisciplinary study at the crossroads of philosophy, cognitive psychology, literary studies and linguistics, this book reconceptualizes the wellsprings of new thought in poems and advances our understanding of thinking’s complex but vital link to the moment of utterance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I Revising towards Spontaneity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. We Do Not Know What We Are Going to Say until We Have Said It\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. “That’s the Illusion You’re Supposed to Get”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Scepticisms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II Two Histories of Sudden Verse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Romantic Revision and Its Others \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Iliad and The Odyssey Were Rapidly Composed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. The Desk as Stage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Oral Verse in Performance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III Writing Is Speaking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Not-Quite Speech\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Writing as “Oral Dictated” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Consciousness as a Window of Three Seconds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Song\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV Suddenness and Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. The Split in the Archive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. “Great Goblets of Magnolialight”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041199358295,"sku":"9781538153529","price":79.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538153529.jpg?v=1750949319","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/suddenness-and-the-composition-of-poetic-thought-9781538153529","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}