TY - BOOK ID - 127316546 TI - The poem as icon : a study in aesthetic cognition PY - 2020 SN - 0190080426 9780190080440 9780190080433 0190080418 0190080442 9780190080426 0190080434 9780190080419 PB - New York: Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Poetry KW - Aesthetics in literature KW - Aesthetics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127316546 AB - "My objective in this book is to show how poetry enables us cognitively to aesthetically access, experience, and identify with the visible and invisible "being" of reality, with art as one cognitive expression of the aesthetic faculty, science another. Just as scientific knowledge of reality is achieved through physically exploring the far reaches of the visible and invisible worlds, so is poetic experience achieved through iconically simulating in semblance the "being" of reality that integrates both self and world in participatory unity. "Being" here should not be understood as the existence of material substance, but as the essence of all that is, both visible and invisible, material and immaterial, a life-force in continuous flux and change. I explore cognition as the sensory-motor-emotive-conceptual processes of "minding" and the aesthetic faculty as the processes of attention, imagination, memory, discrimination, expertise and judgment that underlie all human cognition, including the arts and the sciences"-- ER -