The Poetics of the Mind's Eye

The Poetics of the Mind's Eye

Literature and the Psychology of Imagination

by Christopher Collins

224 pages· 1991· ISBN 9780812213607

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The heart of this study consists of Collins's application of six "cognitive modes" of reading: perception, retrospection, assertion, introspection, expectation, and judgment. In addition, Collins considers the impact of the movement from oral to print-literate culture.

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