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Paleopoetics : The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination by Christopher Collins is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Paleopoetics : The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination about?
<p>Christopher Collins introduces an exciting new field of research traversing evolutionary biology, anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and literary study. Paleopoetics maps the selective processes that originally shaped the human genus millions of years ago and prepared the human brain to play, imagine, empathize, and engage in fictive thought as mediated by language. A manifestation of the "cognitive turn" in the humanities, <i>Paleopoetics</i> calls fo
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christopher Collins
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231531023
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Linguistics, Science
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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