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Date: 16-Mar-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: 'Kubla Khan' ? Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality and Cognitive
Style: Tsur 

	
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:48:01
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: 'Kubla Khan' ? Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality and Cognitive Style: Tsur 
 

Title: "Kubla Khan" - Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality and Cognitive
Style 
Subtitle: A Study in Mental, Vocal and Critical Performance 
Series Title: Human Cognitive Processing 16  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=HCP%2016 


Author: Reuven Tsur, Tel-Aviv University

Hardback: ISBN: 9027223696 Pages: xii, 252 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027223696 Pages: xii, 252 Price: U.S. $ 132.00


Abstract:

This book endorses Coleridge's statement: "nothing can permanently please
which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so". It 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. Part One
is speculative, and discusses three aspects of a complex aesthetic event:
the verbal structure of "Kubla Khan", validity in interpretation, and the
influence of the critic's decision style on his critical decisions. The
other two parts are empirical. Part Two explores reader response to gestalt
qualities of rhyme patterns and hypnotic poems in perspective of decision
style and professional training. Part Three submits four recordings of the
poem by leading British actors to instrumental investigation.

Table of contents

Kubla Khan: Or a Vision in a Dream, a Fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge  ix  
Introduction  1  
Part One: Criticism and Meta-Criticism   
1. "Kubla Khan" and the Implied Critic's Decision Style  11  
2. The Texture and Structure of "Kubla Khan"  79  
Part Two: The Reader and Real Readers   
3. Gestalt Qualities in Poetry and the Reader's Absorption Style  115  
Part Three: Vox Humana   
4. Performing "Kubla Khan" ? An Instrumental Study of Four Readings  143  
Afterword   
Integration and Wider Perspectives  205  
References  235  
Index  245 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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