Why lyrics last : evolution, cognition, and Shakespeare's sonnets / Brian Boyd.

By:

Boyd, Brian, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 227 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674069190
0674069196
9780674064843
0674064844

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why lyrics last.DDC classification:

821/.3 23

LOC classification:

PR2848 .B68 2012eb

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Contents:

Story and verse -- Lyrics unlinked -- Poetry, pattern, and attention -- Lyric and sonnet -- A first Shakespeare sonnet -- From sonnet to sequence -- Love: the mistress -- Love and time: the youth -- Beyond love -- Status -- Death -- Shake-speares sonnets, 1609 -- Lyric and narrative -- Envoi: verse and aversion.

Summary: Argues that lyric making is universal across cultures, and uses the example of Shakespeare's "Sonnets" to showcase the human disposition to play with lyrical patterns.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Argues that lyric making is universal across cultures, and uses the example of Shakespeare's "Sonnets" to showcase the human disposition to play with lyrical patterns.

In English.

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