Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought

Name: Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought
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Author: Paul Magee
ISBN: 9781538153543

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvPaul Magee

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Interrogating the much-cherished concept of “poetic thinking,” this book focuses on what interview and draft materials reveal of how poets actually do think, when in the act of writing. The interviews confirm what findings from cognitive science and linguistics make clear: we rarely know exactly what words we are going to say, until we have said them. Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought draws out the implications of a radically curtailed view of consciousness on how we understand the drafting and revision of lines of poetry, with implications for our theorisation of the composition of prose. Henrich von Kleist’s assertion that “it is not we, but a certain condition of ours which knows” emerges as central to this reassessment of the nature of the written word.Employing an extensive archive of interview materials with major Anglophone poets, discussing how they think in the moments of composition, this book also provides a lucid account of the links between poetic composition and live performative thinking in the contexts of Romantic compositional practice and the early (pre)textual history of ancient Greek epic.A transdisciplinary study at the crossroads of philosophy, cognitive psychology, literary studies, and linguistics, this book reconceptualizes the wellsprings of poetic thought and advances our understanding of thinking’s complex but vital link to improvised speech.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-08
Mått151 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538153543

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst SpeakingPart I Revising towards Spontaneity1. We Do Not Know What We Are Going to Say until We Have Said It2. “That’s the Illusion You’re Supposed to Get”3. ScepticismsPart II Two Histories of Sudden Verse4. Romantic Revision and Its Others 5. The Iliad and The Odyssey Were Rapidly Composed6. The Desk as Stage7. Oral Verse in PerformancePart III Writing Is Speaking8. Not-Quite Speech9. Writing as “Oral Dictated” 10. Consciousness as a Window of Three Seconds11. SongPart IV Suddenness and Art12. The Split in the Archive13. “Great Goblets of Magnolialight”ReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Magee’s book is hands-on, it is challenging and provoking, it’s both incomplete and exhaustively detailed. And it is a model of contemporary research in the field of Creative Writing – taking what it needs from linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ethnography, anthropology, close textual analysis, historical scholarship and lived experience. It sits alongside Nigel Krauth’s The Creative Writer’s Mind (Neurolinguistic Matters, 2022) as a recent tour de force in the field. This mix of interdisciplinary ingredients could produce a mish-mash, but in Magee’s hands, under the guidance of his developing argument and a growing hunch about writing poetry, the book holds together both as a thesis and as its own narrative of inquiry. You get the sense that Magee has read a lot more in each field that he ventures into than he can possibly mention.

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