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Why Lyrics Last - Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets (Hardcover)
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Why Lyrics Last - Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets (Hardcover)
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In Why Lyrics Last, the internationally acclaimed critic Brian Boyd
turns an evolutionary lens on the subject of lyric verse. He finds
that lyric making, though it presents no advantages for the species
in terms of survival and reproduction, is "universal across
cultures because it fits constraints of the human mind." An
evolutionary perspective- especially when coupled with insights
from aesthetics and literary history-has much to tell us about both
verse and the lyrical impulse. Boyd places the writing of lyrical
verse within the human disposition "to play with pattern," and in
an extended example he uncovers the many patterns to be found
within Shakespeare's Sonnets. Shakespeare's bid for readership is
unlike that of any sonneteer before him: he deliberately avoids all
narrative, choosing to maximize the openness of the lyric and
demonstrating the power that verse can have when liberated of
story. In eschewing narrative, Shakespeare plays freely with
patterns of other kinds: words, images, sounds, structures;
emotions and moods; argument and analogy; and natural rhythms, in
daily, seasonal, and life cycles. In the originality of his
stratagems, and in their sheer number and variety, both within and
between sonnets, Shakespeare outdoes all competitors. A reading of
the Sonnets informed by evolution is primed to attend to these
complexities and better able to appreciate Shakespeare's remarkable
gambit for immortal fame.
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