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Why Lyrics Last : Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674064843
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why Lyrics LastDDC classification:
  • 821/.3
LOC classification:
  • PR2848
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Story and Verse -- Lyrics Unlinked -- 1. Poetry, Pattern, and Attention -- 2. Lyric and Sonnet -- 3. A First Shakespeare Sonnet -- From Sonnet to Sequence -- 4. Love: The Mistress -- 5. Love and Time: The Youth -- Beyond Love -- 6. Status -- 7. Death -- Shake-speares Sonnets, 1609 -- 8. Lyric and Narrative -- Envoi: Verse and Aversion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Why Lyrics Last turns an evolutionary lens on lyric verse, placing the writing of verse within the human disposition to play with pattern. Boyd takes as an extended example the many patterns to be found within Shakespeare's Sonnets. There, the Bard avoids all narrative and demonstrates the power that verse can have when liberated of story.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Story and Verse -- Lyrics Unlinked -- 1. Poetry, Pattern, and Attention -- 2. Lyric and Sonnet -- 3. A First Shakespeare Sonnet -- From Sonnet to Sequence -- 4. Love: The Mistress -- 5. Love and Time: The Youth -- Beyond Love -- 6. Status -- 7. Death -- Shake-speares Sonnets, 1609 -- 8. Lyric and Narrative -- Envoi: Verse and Aversion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Why Lyrics Last turns an evolutionary lens on lyric verse, placing the writing of verse within the human disposition to play with pattern. Boyd takes as an extended example the many patterns to be found within Shakespeare's Sonnets. There, the Bard avoids all narrative and demonstrates the power that verse can have when liberated of story.

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