Overview
Offers a fresh argument in defense of the humanities
Highlights similarities between mindfulness and the study of poetry
Analyzes traditional and experimental poetry as well as scientific studies of mindfulness
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- ecopoetry
- ecocriticism
- mindfulness
- study of poetry
- benefits of mindfulness
- practice of mindfulness
- campaign for the humanities
- Pedagogy of the Humanities
- Humanities education and mindfulness
- mindfulness and technology's effect on the brain
- nature poetry and mindfulnesss
- anatman and post-structuralism
- Zen Buddhism and mindfulness
- poetry and systems thinking
- Development of critical thinking skills through poetry study
- Uses of lyric poetry analysis in business and science
- poetry and mindfulness for developing attention and compassion
- Neuroscience of Poetry
- Poetry and systems thinking
- poetry and subjectivity
About this book
At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and education. The book argues that the benefits and insights mindfulness provides are also cultivated by the study of poetry. These benefits include a focus on the present, the ability to see through scripts and habits, a rethinking of subjectivity, and the development of ecological or systems thinking. Bryan Walpert employs close readings of traditional and experimental poetry and draws on scientific studies of the effects of mindfulness or reading literature on the brain. It argues the skills that poetry, like mindfulness, cultivates are useful beyond the page or classroom and ultimately are necessary to engage with such global issues as the environmental crisis.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bryan Walpert is Associate Professor in the School of English & Media Studies at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. His publications include the poetry collections Etymology, A History of Glass, and Native Bird; the fiction collection Ephraim’s Eyes, and the monograph Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Poetry and Mindfulness
Book Subtitle: Interruption to a Journey
Authors: Bryan Walpert
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68681-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68680-6Published: 16 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88640-4Published: 29 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68681-3Published: 01 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 125
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Creativity and Arts Education