Forgetful muses: reading the author in the text

by Lancashire, Ian

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Title Statements

Full title :Forgetful muses : reading the author in the text / Ian Lancashire.

Summary

"How can we understand and analyze the primarily unconscious process of writing? In this groundbreaking work of neuro-cognitive literary theory, Ian Lancashire maps the interplay of self-conscious critique and unconsciouscreativity.

Forgetful Muses shows how a writer's own 'anonymous, ' that part of the mind that creates language up to the point of consciousness, is the genesis of thought. Those thoughts are then articulated by an author's inner voice and become subject to critique by the mind's 'reader-editor.' The 'reader-editor' engages with the 'anonymous, ' which uses this information to formulate new ideas. Drawing on author testimony, cybernetics, cognitive psychology, corpus linguistics, text analysis, the neurobiology of mental aging, and his own experiences, Lancashire's close readings of twelve authors, including Caedmon, Chaucer, Coleridge, Joyce, Christie, and Atwood, serve to illuminate a mysterywe all share."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:c2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
Place of Publication:Toronto [Ont.]
Language:eng
Publication Date:c2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (xii, 339 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781442686328, 1442686324
oclc:on1139907633
LC Classification:PN171.P83
Dewey Decimal:801/.92

Introduction : finding the author in the text -- Experiencing the muse -- Uttering -- Cybertextuality -- Poet-authors -- Novelist-authors -- Reading the writer's own anonymous.

Subjects

Art d'écrire -- Aspect psychologique Authorship -- Psychological aspects Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- … Criticism -- Psychological aspects Critique -- Aspect psychologique Literary style Livres numériques Psychologie et littérature Psychology and literature Style littéraire