The Poetics of the Mind's Eye
Literature and the Psychology of Imagination

Christopher Collins

224 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus.
Paper 1991 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1360-7 | $26.50s | 17.50 | Add to shopping cart

The heart of this study consists of Collins's application of six "cognitive modes" of reading: perception, retrospection, assertion, introspection, expectation, and judgment. In addition, Collins considers the impact of the movement from oral to print-literate culture.

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