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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Innovating Ourselves
How We Got This Way …
Methods of Mindsharing
The Coevolution of Signs and Technology
From Pronouns to Speech Acts
Speaking to the Mind’s Eye
Summary
2. Narrative Memory
Episodic Memory
The Mnemonics of Time
Narrative Time
Magic and the Mnemonics of Place
The Mnemonics of Person
Summary
3. The Dancing, Singing Daughters of Memory
Memory and the Mnemonics of Performance
The Coevolution of Music and Language
Music and the Emotional Brain
Dancing and the Inner Dance
Individual Differences and the Pleasures of Music
Summary
4. Visual Instruments of Memory
The Mnemonics of Iconism
Imagining the Past
The Mnemonics of Writing
Public Verse and the Epitaph
Private Prose and the Personal Letter
Summary
5. Poets’ Play and Plato’s Poetics
Enter the Poet
Word Play
Plato on Poetic Lies
Plato and the Imitative Imagination
Plato and the Formation of Genres
Summary
6. Writing for the Voice
Voces Paginarum
The Genealogy of the Lyric Voice
The Dramatic Lyric
The Epistolary Lyric
Voice and the Afterlife of Poets
Summary
7. Writing and the Reading Mind
Dyadic Stylistics
Reading Inner Writing
Lyric and Soliloquy
What Meter Does
Seeing What We Read
Summary
Epilogue: Poetics and the Making of the Modern Self
Appendix: Three Horatian Texts
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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