Table of Contents

1. Kubla Khan: Or a Vision in a Dream, a Fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 2. Introduction; 3. Part One: Criticism and Meta-Criticism; 4. 1. "Kubla Khan" and the Implied Critic's Decision Style; 5. 2. The Texture and Structure of "Kubla Khan"; 6. Part Two: The Reader and Real Readers; 7. 3. Gestalt Qualities in Poetry and the Reader's Absorption Style; 8. Part Three: Vox Humana; 9. 4. Performing "Kubla Khan" - An Instrumental Study of Four Readings; 10. Afterword; 11. Integration and Wider Perspectives; 12. References; 13. Index

Reviews

[...] this fascinating and intelligent book should appeal to a wider audience than just those interested in cognitive poetics, and although it would not be suitable as textbook, its many insights about the cognition and reading, hearing and performing verse would be of interest and use to any teacher of poetry.
*Elizabeth Bradburn, Western Michigan University, in Pragmatics & Cognition, Vol. 16:1 (2008)*