Author : Reuven Tsur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190634693
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Book Synopsis Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils by : Reuven Tsur
Download or read book Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils written by Reuven Tsur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: where do conventions come from? -- Some implications of D'Andrade's assumptions -- Poetic conventions as fossilized cognitive devices: the case of medieval and Renaissance poetics -- Frozen formulae and expressive force: the ballad "Edward"--Artistic devices and mystical qualities in Hebrew devotional poems -- Artistic devices and mystical qualities in Hebrew devotional poems -- The translated poem as an esthetic object how conventions constrain one another in a poem -- The translated poem as an esthetic object how conventions constrain one another in a poem -- Some remarks on the nature of trochees and iambs and their relationship to other meters