Professor Kathryn Banks' Outputs (2)

‘Look Again’, ‘Listen, Listen’, ‘Keep Looking’: Emergent Properties and Sensorimotor Imagining in Mary Oliver’s Poetry (2018)
Book Chapter
Banks, K. (2018). ‘Look Again’, ‘Listen, Listen’, ‘Keep Looking’: Emergent Properties and Sensorimotor Imagining in Mary Oliver’s Poetry. In T. Cave, & D. Wilson (Eds.), Reading Beyond the Code: Literature and Relevance Theory (129-148). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794776.003.0008

This chapter offers a way of understanding the effects of poetic images (metaphorical or literal). It employs and extends the notion of ‘emergent properties’, as well as relevance theory’s account of how communicative acts can ‘show’ as much as they... Read More about ‘Look Again’, ‘Listen, Listen’, ‘Keep Looking’: Emergent Properties and Sensorimotor Imagining in Mary Oliver’s Poetry.

Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence. (2018)
Book
Banks, K., & Chesters, T. (Eds.). (2018). Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69200-5

This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed ‘kinesic intelligence’, a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through analyses of authors including Petrarch, Rabelais, and Sha... Read More about Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence..