Brain of Robert Frost
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Author_Norman N. Holland
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cognitive approaches to poetry analysis
cognitive psychology
emotion and intellect integration
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literary cognition
literary criticism
literary interpretation
literary interpretation methods
neuroscience of reading
psychoanalysis and literature
psychoanalytic theory
Product details
- ISBN 9781032658179
- Weight: 390g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1988,this book brings brain science to literary criticism. The Brain of Robert Frost combines psychoanalysis with the findings of brain research and cognitive psychology to model the way we create and respond to literature. Norman Holland draws three central ideas from ‘the mind’s new science’: the critical ‘supercharged’ period in infancy when individuality is formed; the binding of emotion to intellect deep in the old brain; the top-down, inside-out,feedback processing of language in the new.Then, using Robert Frost as an example both of a writer and a reader, and comparing Frost’s reading of a poem to readings by six professors of literature, Holland builds a new, powerful way of thinking about literary criticism and teaching.A book about literary cognition,The Brain of Robert Frost furthers our understanding of the reading process, of poet’s brains,and of our own.
Norman N. Holland was Milbauer Eminent Schoar at the University of Florida, USA and one of only a few literary theorists to have received psychoanalytic training.
