Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The Art of Literature and the Science of Literature

A writer can capture our attention before, in some cases long before, we reach what academic critics would accept as the “meaning” or “meanings” of works. The high density of multiple patterns holds our attention and elicits our response—especially through patterns of biological importance, like those surrounding character and event, which arouse attention and emotion and feed powerful, dedicated, evolved information-processing subroutines in the mind.


"The Art of Literature and the Science of Literature," Brian Boyd
2008

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