here is my favourite poem. ON LIVING I Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example- I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. Living is no laughing matter: you must take it seriously,...

About 'modulation of the medium', let's consider the example at hand, "Sunday Morning." How does it reverberate -- say more than it literally says, convey attitude and values? An unrhymed poem in iambic pentameter about religion . . . . Doesn't that ring a bell? It's a parody -- maybe unc...

Welcome to BookTalk. Yes. I think "the intersection between cognition and aesthetics" lies in the modulation of the medium of expression. Wallace, though, is unkind in criticizing his wife's hunger for a formal faith.Tom Thanks for the welcome. Questions for you: could you flesh out what ...

I am a non-fiction reader primarily. Right now I am reading books about the American philosophical movement called Pragmatism and books about the embodied mind. I am currently reading Mark Johnson's The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding. What I like about this book in particular...