The Spider's Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry

Holyoak, Keith J.

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-03-12
  • 售價: $1,400
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,330
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 288
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262551470
  • ISBN-13: 9780262551472
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商品描述

An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination--a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.

In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of thinkers from the humanities--poets, philosophers, and critics--and from the sciences--psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, and computer scientists. He begins each chapter with a poem--by poets including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Du Fu, William Butler Yeats, and Pablo Neruda--and then widens the discussion to broader notions of metaphor and mind.

Holyoak uses Whitman's poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider" to illustrate the process of interpreting a poem, and explains the relevance of two psychological mechanisms, analogy and conceptual combination, to metaphor. He outlines ideas first sketched by Coleridge--who called poetry "the best words in their best order"--and links them to modern research on the interplay between cognition and emotion, controlled and associative thinking, memory and creativity. Building on Emily Dickinson's declaration "the brain is wider than the sky," Holyoak suggests that the control and default networks in the brain may combine to support creativity. He also considers, among other things, the interplay of sound and meaning in poetry; symbolism in the work of Yeats, Jung, and others; indirect communication in poems; the mixture of active and passive processes in creativity; and whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity. Guided by Holyoak, we can begin to trace the outlines of creativity through the mechanisms of metaphor.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

詩歌中隱喻的探討作為人類想像力的微觀,一種理解創造力機制的方式。

在《蜘蛛的線》中,基思·霍利奧克將隱喻視為創造性想像力的微觀。霍利奧克是一位心理學家和詩人,他借鑒了人文學科(詩人、哲學家和評論家)和科學(心理學家、神經科學家、語言學家和計算機科學家)思想家的觀點。他每章都以一首詩開始,這些詩包括塞繆爾·泰勒·柯勒律治、西爾維婭·普拉斯、華特·惠特曼、艾米莉·狄金森、羅伯特·弗羅斯特、西奧多·羅斯克、杜甫、威廉·巴特勒·葉芝和巴勃羅·聶魯達的作品,然後將討論擴展到更廣泛的隱喻和思維概念。

霍利奧克使用惠特曼的詩《一隻無聲的耐心蜘蛛》來說明詮釋詩歌的過程,並解釋了兩個心理機制——類比和概念結合——對隱喻的相關性。他概述了柯勒律治最早提出的想法——將詩歌稱為“最佳詞語的最佳排列”——並將其與關於認知和情感、控制和聯想思維、記憶和創造力之間相互作用的現代研究聯繫起來。在艾米莉·狄金森宣稱“大腦比天空更寬廣”的基礎上,霍利奧克提出大腦中的控制網絡和默認網絡可能結合起來支持創造力。他還考慮了詩歌中聲音和意義的相互作用;葉芝、草澤東等人作品中的象徵主義;詩歌中的間接溝通;創造力中主動和被動過程的混合;以及人工智能是否能夠實現詩歌的真實性。在霍利奧克的引導下,我們可以開始通過隱喻的機制勾勒出創造力的輪廓。

作者簡介

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.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Keith J. Holyoak,加州大學洛杉磯分校的心理學傑出教授,是一位心理學家和詩人。他是認知心理學的多本書籍的合著者或編輯者,並出版了三卷詩集。