Paleopoetics by Collins, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedicaton Contents Preface Some Notes on Dating and Nomenclature Acknowledgments 1. The Idea of a Paleopoetics

Relitigating Plato v. Poiêsis Big History Rhetoric, Poetics, and Hermeneutics The Presymbolic Mind Symbolic Play and the Verbal Artifact

2. From Dualities to Dyads

Duality Perception: The Parallel–Serial Dyad and Episodic Consciousness Action and the Anatomy of Multitasking Information Processing: The Parallel and Serial Modes The Dyadic Pattern

3. Play and Instrumentality

Donald‘s Four Stages of Consciousness Play in the Episodic Stage Instrumentality in the Mimetic Stage Imitative Play in the Mimetic Stage Preludes to Language

4. The World as We See It

Vision and the Visual Imagination Parsing the Visible Umwelt Spatial Frames of Reference How Homo Became Sapient Complementarity—The Limits of Human Knowledge?

5. Human Communication: From Pre-Language to Protolanguage

Why Language? From Pre- Language to Protolanguage and Beyond Gesture: Index and Icon Hearing Voices Protolanguage, the Long Transition

6. Language: Its Prelinguistic Inheritance

The Rhetorical Motive Language Play Verbal Visuality: The Simulation of Perception Verbal Visuality: The Simulation of Action The Rhetorical Imagination

7. The Poetics of the Verbal Artifact

The Ritual and Poetic Genres Oral Per for mance Style Memory Enacting the Verbal Artifact Paralanguage, Protolanguage, and Oral Poetics

Epilogue: The Neopoetics of Writing Notes Bibliography Index