Plausible deniability: Nature as hypothesis in English-language haiku

Plausible deniability: Nature as hypothesis in English-language haiku

Gendai haiku; Haiku, English language; haiku and cognition;Haiku, Modern: haiku definitions; Virgilio's 'lily' haiku; misreading as meaning; disjunction, kire, and coherence in haiku; the hard problem of consciousness; cognitive landscapes in haiku; Natsuishi Ban’ya; provocational forgetting in gendai haiku; non-resolution of figure and ground in gendai haiku;

Recognizing that the traditional attempts to define haiku have not really distinguished it from other poetic forms, Richard Gilbert proposes that describing haiku could be a more productive approach. In keeping with this, he employs insights from modern cognitive science to describe what he sees as some of haiku's most distinctive characteristics.

Gilbert, Richard

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Paper presented, August 2007, and published in the PALA Conference Proceedings (the Poetics and Linguistics Association. Available at www.pala.ac.uk/2007.html); published in Stylistic Studies of Literature, M. Hori, T. Tabata, & S. Kumamoto, eds., Bern: Peter Lang, 2009

2007

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