Bilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry, Music, and Narrative: The Science of Art

by Norbert Francis

Overview

Bilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry, Music, and Narrative reviews the relevant research and, at the same time, challenges popular views in academia associated with cultural studies and related fields that have rejected the methods of modern science. Its contributions will be of particular value to students and scholars of linguistics, literary studies, and musicology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498551847
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	08/22/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Norbert Francis is professor of bilingual/multicultural education at Northern Arizona University.

Table of Contents

Preface
1 The verbal and musical arts across languages and cultures
Part I: Poetry
2 The cognition of stories and poems
3 In the beginning
4 Poetry across languages and cultures
Part II: Music
5 First music and second music acquisition
6 The origin of music in art and science
Part III: Narrative
7 Creationist pseudoscience in the American university
8 New opportunities for narrative inquiry
9 Theory and creativity in literary and musical education