Bilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry, Music, and Narrative
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Bilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry, Music, and Narrative

The Science of Art

  1. 277 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Bilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry, Music, and Narrative

The Science of Art

About this book

Poetry, music, and narrative are the three aesthetic genres based on uniquely human verbal and vocal capabilities. Universal across all languages and cultures and accessible to all developing children, their foundation must be primary and essential. How did they arise among our early ancestors, and what does this origin imply about our participation in their creation and performance? How do we learn poetic, narrative, and musical abilities? Studying these questions from a scientific point of view requires a cross-cultural approach that also considers contact and interaction between different languages. Research in recent years has made significant progress toward a better understanding of the underlying competencies in literature and music and of the acquisition of artistic sensibility in each case. Bilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry, Music, and Narrative reviews the relevant research and, at the same time, challenges popular views in academia associated with cultural studies and related fields that have rejected the methods of modern science. Its contributions will be of particular value to students and scholars of linguistics, literary studies, and musicology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Bilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry, Music, and Narrative
  3. Bilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry, Music, and Narrative
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1
  8. The Verbal and Musical Arts across Languages and Cultures
  9. Part I
  10. POETRY
  11. Chapter 2
  12. The Cognition of Stories and Poems
  13. Chapter 3
  14. In the Beginning
  15. Chapter 4
  16. Poetry across Languages and Cultures
  17. Part II
  18. MUSIC
  19. Chapter 5
  20. First Music and Second Music Acquisition
  21. Chapter 6
  22. The Origin of Music in Art and Science
  23. Part III
  24. NARRATIVE
  25. Chapter 7
  26. Creationist Pseudoscience in the American University
  27. Chapter 8
  28. New Opportunities for Narrative Inquiry
  29. Chapter 9
  30. Theory and Creativity
  31. Glossary
  32. References
  33. Index
  34. About the Author