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...

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Published in:	Modern Philology Vol. 108; no. 1; pp. 65 - 89
Main Author:	Koehler, Margaret
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of Chicago Press Aug2010
Subjects:	Mock-heroic literature Eighteenth century Poetry (Literary form) Attention Literature Satire Irony
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