Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils

Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780190634698
ISBN-13 : 0190634693
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Download or read book Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils written by Reuven Tsur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils contrasts two approaches to poetic conventions: the "culture-begets-culture" or "influence-hunting" approach, which traces conventions back to earlier cultural phenomena by mapping out their migrations; and the "constraints-seeking" or "cognitive-fossils" approach, that assumes that conventions originate in cognitive solutions to adaptation problems.


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