The Spider's Thread
Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2024
Summary
In The Spider’s Thread, Keith Holyoak examines metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination and a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of thinkers from both the humanities and the sciences.
He begins each chapter with a poem by poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Du Fu, William Butler Yeats, and Pablo Neruda, and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551472 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262551470 |
| Author: | Keith J. Holyoak |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Keith J. Holyoak
Keith J. Holyoak, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, is a psychologist and poet. He is the coauthor or editor of a number of books on cognitive psychology and has published three volumes of poetry.
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