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• ISBN 10: 0190676353
• ISBN 13: 9780190676353
• Author: Reuven Tsur

Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils offers a major theoretical statement of where poetic conventions come from. The work comprises Reuven Tsur’s research in cognitive poetics to show how conventional poetic styles originate from cognitive rather than cultural principles. The book contrasts two approaches to cultural conventions in general, and poetic conventions in particular. They include what may be called the “culture-begets-culture” or “influence-hunting” approach, and the “constraints-seeking” or “cognitive-fossils” approach here expounded. The former assumes that one may account for cultural programs by pointing out their roots in earlier cultural phenomena and provide a map of their migrations. The latter assumes that cultural programs originate in cognitive solutions to adaptation problems that have acquired the status of established practice. Both conceptions assume “repeated social transmission,” but with very different implications.

Table of contents:

1. Where Do Conventions Come From?

2. Some Implications of D’Andrade’s Assumptions

3. Poetic Conventions as Fossilized Cognitive Devices: The Case of Medieval and Renaissance Poetics

4. Frozen Formulae and Expressive Force: The Ballad “Edward”

5. Artistic Devices and Mystical Qualities in Hebrew Devotional Poems with Idit Einat-Nov

6. Figurative Language and Sociocultural Background: Hebrew Poetry as a Test Case

7. The Translated Poem as an Aesthetic Object: How Conventions Constrain One Another in a Poem

8. More Is Up—Some of the Time

9. Some Remarks on the Nature of Trochees and Iambs and Their Relationship to Other Meters

10. Poetic Language and the Psychopathology of Everyday Life

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