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How can we understand and analyze the primarily unconscious process of writing? In this groundbreaking work of neuro-cognitive literary theory, Ian Lancashire maps the interplay of self-conscious critique and unconscious creativity.
Forgetful Muses shows how a writer's own 'anonymous,' that part of the mind that creates language up to the point of consciousness, is the genesis of thought. Those thoughts are then articulated by an author's inner voice and become subject to critique by the mind's 'reader-editor.' The 'reader-editor' engages with the 'anonymous,' which uses this information to formulate new ideas. Drawing on author testimony, cybernetics, cognitive psychology, corpus linguistics, text analysis, the neurobiology of mental aging, and his own experiences, Lancashire's close readings of twelve authors, including Caedmon, Chaucer, Coleridge, Joyce, Christie, and Atwood, serve to illuminate a mystery we all share.
Contents
Introduction
Experiencing the Muse
Sightings - Richard Eberhart's "The Groundhog" - William Stafford's "Ask Me"
Uttering
Modelling the Inaccessible Skill - Mind on Fire - Conceptualizer and Verbalizer - Self-Monitor and Working Memory - Reading Span and Cognitive Lead - Conclusion
Cybertextuality
Poet-Authors
Geoffrey Chaucer - William Shakespeare - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - W. B. Yeats - T. S. Eliot
Novelist-Authors
James Joyce - Agatha Christie - Margaret Atwood - Iris Murdoch
Reading the Writers' Own Anonymous
Appendices
