Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils

by 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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190634693
• ISBN13: 9780190634698
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"