Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils (Cognition and Poetics)

Introduction: where do conventions come from? -- Some implications of D'Andrade's assumptions -- Poetic conventions as fossilized cognitive devices: the case of medieval and Renaissance poetics -- Frozen formulae and expressive force: the ballad Edward -- Artistic devices and mystical qualities in Hebrew devotional poems -- Artistic devices and mystical qualities in Hebrew devotional poems -- The translated poem as an esthetic object how conventions constrain one another in a poem -- The translated poem as an esthetic object how conventions constrain one another in a poem -- Some remarks on the nature of trochees and iambs and their relationship to other meters -- Poetic language and the psychopathology of everyday life. Reuven Tsur. Includes bibliographical references and index.