10-13-2013, 07:13 PM
(10-13-2013, 07:46 AM)milo Wrote: Scientific proof.that art is.objective and that some poetry is prose with line breaks. Now I just need my portable MRI . . .
Nope. It's more like: Preliminary study results show that
"13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English"
have similar subjective feelings and opinions. Earth-shattering.
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"Their brain activity was scanned and compared when reading literal prose such as an extract from
a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, as well
as their favourite poetry."
"The experience of reading varies markedly between differing texts which may be, for example,
primarily informative, musical, or moving."
Not as clear cut as the headlines proclaim.
Informative:
heating installation manual
difficult sonnets
Musical:
easy sonnets
evocative passages from novels
favourite poetry
Moving:
evocative passages from novels
favourite poetry
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions