Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory: Russian Literary Mnemonics
ISBN: 9780415997379 | 0415997372
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 10/6/2010
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In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. While the first half of the book focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories of past reading experiences shape the ways in which we react to literary works, the second half of the book examines the concrete mnemonic qualities of poetry, as well as the social uses to which poetry memorization has hi... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Mnemonic Writing | |
| Just what word did MandelG++shtam forget? | |
| The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and poetic creativity | |
| Why did Nabokov dislike Dostoevsky? | |
| Mnemonic styles in novelistic narration | |
| Mnemonic Reading | |
| What poems did Aleksandr Pushkin know by heart? | |
| A mnemonic view of intertextuality | |
| ... MORE | |
| The mnemonics of the reading process | |
| Memorable Speech | |
| What makes a line memorable? | |
| A case study in literary memetics | |
| What makes a poem memorable? | |
| A mnemonic view of the literary canon Postscript: Why did free verse catch on in the West, but not in Russia? | |
| Poetry memorization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia | |
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