Forms of Poetic Attention
ISBN: 9780231547321
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Poetry -- History and criticism; Poetry -- Psychological aspects; Attention; Cognition in literature; Poetics;

Identifying a crucial link between poetic form and the forming of attention, Lucy Alford offers a new terminology for how poetic attention works and how attention becomes a subject and object of poetry. She combines close readings of a wide variety of poems with research in the philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology of attention.

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Lucy Alford (Stanford, PhD.) is a fellow at the University of Chicago and Collegiate Assistant Professor. Her work has been published in Philosophy & Literature , Dibur , and Modern Language Notes .Lucy Alford is a fellow and collegiate assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where she teaches and writes on modern and contemporary poetry and comparative poetics. Her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate , Literary Matters , the Warwick Review , Streetlight , and Atelier .


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