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In Their Right Minds: The Lives and Shared Practices of Poetic Geniuses

In Their Right Minds: The Lives and Shared Practices of Poetic Geniuses

Brooks Platt, Carole

Paperback

CognitionPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 184540789X
ISBN13: 9781845407896
Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
Published: Aug 1 2015
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In 1976, Julian Jaynes proposed that the language of poetry and prophecy originated in the right, god-side of the brain. Current neuroscientific evidence confirms the role of the right hemisphere in poetry, a sensed presence, and paranormal claims as well as in mental imbalance. Left-hemispheric dominance for language is the norm. An atypically enhanced right hemisphere, whether attained through genetic predisposition, left-hemispheric damage, epilepsy, childhood or later traumas, can create hypersensitivities along with special skills. Dissociative Others may arise unbidden or be coaxed out through occult practices. Based on nearly twenty years of scientific and literary research, this book enters the atypical minds of poetic geniuses -- Blake, Keats, Hugo, Rilke, Yeats, Merrill, Plath and Hughes -- by way of the visible signs in their lives, beliefs, and shared practices.

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