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Reading Bodies: Rethinking Embodied Cognition in Experimental Poetry
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Reading Bodies: Rethinking Embodied Cognition in Experimental Poetry. |
| 개인저자 | Kossak, Benjamin. |
| 단체저자명 | University of California, Davis. English. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: University of California, Davis., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 249 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-04A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781392737156 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2019. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Advisor: Brown, Nathan. |
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| 요약 | "Reading Bodies: Rethinking Embodied Cognition in Experimental Poetry" responds to the recent turn to embodiment in literary studies by interrogating "embodiment" as a term and a concept, looking towards and past the limits of experience to propose new understandings of the material reading body. To do so, it reads bodily poetics with empirical studies of readers (including recent work on embodied cognition, but stretching back to psychophysiological research from the beginning of the century). By putting these two discourses in dialogue, the dissertation is able to present a bodily poetics that treats the body as a material assemblage more than an object of experience. Rhetorics of embodiment often invoke the body only to put it in service of more abstract conceptual apparatuses. Against this tendency, I argue for a poetics of the body that sees reading as a set of muscular and microcellular movements rather than a process of experiencing a text. The body presented this way reconfigures the relationship between reader, text and author, and sees a material audience for poetry composed of muscles and other tissues, a reading that takes place on a microcellular landscape alien to our own experience of ourselves and our readings. The dissertation as a whole begins by questioning the underlying rhetorical mechanisms behind the use of "embodiment" in both literary studies and cognitive science and moves toward expanding our sense of what bodily actions count as reading. Chapter one reads the pervasive use of "embodied" as a key term in the reception of Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven's Dada art and poetry in order to show how the word asks Freytag-Loringhoven's material body to become abstracted as it stands in for Dada and her own art. Chapter two follows this logic to argue that like I. A. Richards, who frequently invoked the body only to defer engaging with it, cognitive studies of eye movement in reading have understood the eye as an index for attention but routinely discard its material movements unless they can be brought into an economy of cognition. Moving from the eyes to the throat, the third chapter discusses subvocal articulation as a key to reorganizing the strands of Jack Spicer's poetics into a new poetics of the voice. This voice is built on vocal musculature rather than breath, and it rests on a correspondence of forms across time, creating a sometimes violating and sometimes intimate relationship of reader and poet. Finally, the last chapter builds on the idea of material intimacy developed in chapter three and brings the expansive understanding of the materiality of reading to its logical conclusion. Connecting Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's ideas of empathy and the cellular body through dance, the chapter describes an attachment of reader to poem through kinesthetic empathy that operates on a cellular level.Throughout this project, I call for more attention to bodily activity at the limits of perception or experience, and importantly what lies beyond those limits. It is only in these moments of alienation, moments of recognition for the vast field of material movement and interaction that cannot be stitched into self-conscious reflection, that we begin to treat the body in its own terms, rather than asking it to conform to concepts of cognition and experience. The experimental tradition in psychology has a long history of attending to the movements of the body beyond experience, and the experimental tradition in poetry that I draw on here is able to propose new modes of thinking that are adequate to this defamiliarized body but also attentive to the intimate connection performed by that body. It is an intimacy of text and reader imagined as the intimacy of an eye being led by a line, or a nerve cell making contact with a muscle. This is the material body out from under the yoke of embodiment, a body we must meet anew in order to understand its readings. |
| 일반주제명 | English literature. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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