Why lyrics last : evolution, cognition, and Shakespeare's sonnets /
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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of 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.
