The Filter of Attention and Indissoluble Attractors in Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poetry.
The article focuses on the aspects of the 18th century mock-heroic poetry which engages vitally with the phenomenon of attention. It mentions that cognitive psychologists have alternately conceived of attention as a filter that selects some stimuli over others and as a spotlight that enhances a dist...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 108; no. 1; pp. 65 - 89 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Chicago Press
Aug2010
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the aspects of the 18th century mock-heroic poetry which engages vitally with the phenomenon of attention. It mentions that cognitive psychologists have alternately conceived of attention as a filter that selects some stimuli over others and as a spotlight that enhances a distinct area. Critics have also noted the mock-heroic's cultivation of split awareness and its elevation of the trivial in ways that reach beyond satiric irony. |
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