To understand and value Wordsworth's efforts to make poetry a tool of cultural intervention, critics must, like him, struggle with the Cartesian dualisms that dominate Western culture. Drawing on a number of interdisciplinary sources, including classical rhetoricians Isocrates and Quintilian, and twentieth-century scientists Gregory Bateson and Antonio Damasio, this study develops a coherent framework for understanding Wordsworth's efforts to refigure the relationships that constitute knowing. Sullivan argues that ...
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To understand and value Wordsworth's efforts to make poetry a tool of cultural intervention, critics must, like him, struggle with the Cartesian dualisms that dominate Western culture. Drawing on a number of interdisciplinary sources, including classical rhetoricians Isocrates and Quintilian, and twentieth-century scientists Gregory Bateson and Antonio Damasio, this study develops a coherent framework for understanding Wordsworth's efforts to refigure the relationships that constitute knowing. Sullivan argues that Wordsworth sketched out an ???ecology of mind??? in which perception, feeling, thinking, and acting were related in a continuum of mental processes, and in which individual minds had a mutually shaping, integrative relationship with larger mind-like processes (particularly ???Nature???). This study also shows how this ???ecology of mind??? can offer significant insight to learners in the twenty-first century.
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
2000
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
10041630616
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Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. 2000 hardcover published without jacket/ex-library with usual markings/clean & unmarked text. 202 p. Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 15.