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 | #738234 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2012-04-05 |  2012-03-05 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .86 x5.77 x8.40l,.92 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Literary study|By Joanne D. Carey|"Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets" is a fascinating, thought provoking study of lyric, stories, Shakespeare and the evolution of culture.|8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| first words on lyric's last|By Alvaro Lewis|This spare book provocatively| |The most illuminating book on Shakespeare's Sonnets since Helen Vendler's The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets. (Mac Jackson, The University of Auckland)

An impressive work of scholarship... a genuinely original and valuable addition to the substantial

In Why Lyrics Last, the internationally acclaimed critic Brian Boyd turns an evolutionary lens on the subject of lyric verse. He finds that lyric making, though it presents no advantages for the species in terms of survival and reproduction, is “universal across cultures because it fits constraints of the human mind.” An evolutionary perspective― especially when coupled with insights from aesthetics and literary history―has much to tell us about...

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