?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Postscript+to+%22Rhyme+and+Cognitive+Poetics%22&rft.creator=Tsur%2C+Reuven&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.subject=Psychophysics&rft.description=The+cognitive+approach+in+my+paper+%22Rhyme+and+Cognitive+Poetics%22+has+been+criticised+from+the+point+of+view+of+historical+poetics.+This+paper+enumerates+the+points+of+criticism+and+answers+them.+The+following+paragraph+sums+up+my+position+in+answer+to+that+criticism%3A+Cognitive+Poetics+uses+quantitative+investigations+to+establish+regularities%2C+makes+a+sustained+effort+to+ascertain+what+%22the+specific+effects+of+poetry%22+are%2C+through+introspection%2C+in+controlled+experiments+in+the+psychological+laboratory%2C+by+considering+statements+of+professional+critics+in+their+published+writings%2C+or+by+collecting+casual+reports+of+students+in+the+classroom.+It+offers+hypotheses+drawn+from+the+various+branches+of+cognitive+science+to+relate%2C+systematically%2C+poetic+effects+to+poetic+structures+with+which+they+have+been+regularly+associated.+By+the+same+token%2C+it+helps+further+to+refine+the+formulation+of+perceived+affects+collected+in+a+variety+of+ways+from+a+variety+of+respondents.+Far+from+relying+%22on+a+reader+'in+general%2C'+or+on+a+modern+(and+sometimes+unsophisticated)+reader%22%2C+it+helps+to+break+up+a+homogeneous+past+into+a+multiplicity+of+related+attitudes%2C+but+avoiding+scepticism%2C+idiosyncrasy%2C+or+chaos.+While+the+historical+approach+encountered+here+%22is+based+not+so+much+on+insight+and+intuition+as+on+wide+quantitative+analyses+of+observable+facts%22%2C+Cognitive+Poetics+assumes+that+the+readers+of+past+ages+had+insights+and+intuitions%2C+no+less+than+present%C2%96day+readers%3B+that+to+understand+such+insights+and+intuitions+one+must+study+the+responses+of+living+readers%2C+and+then+try+to+find+out+in+what+respects+can+the+responses+of+readers+in+the+past+be+supposed+to+differ+from+the+responses+of+present-day+readers%3B+and+that+to+abandon+such+inquiries+is+too+high+a+price+to+pay+for+%22scientific+objectivity%22.&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F736%2F1%2FPostscript.html&rft.identifier=++Tsur%2C+Reuven++(1996)+Postscript+to+%22Rhyme+and+Cognitive+Poetics%22.++%5BPreprint%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F736%2F