Viewing nature and experiencing love can create a madness. Yet when spun of lustrous threads, the beauty of the very air we breathe consumes the writings from the minds of the great Romantics. They destroy their preconceptions in order to create meaningful and inspiring works of genius.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Last Post for the Semester
I’ll be uncharacteristically brief in my last post. This blog will only contain a simple question to ponder, and nothing more. Wuthering Heights, similar to other poems and prose we read, keenly represents this distinct Romantic creativity and imagination. Such creativity exemplifies experimental boldness, unrestrained spirituality, untrammeled vision, as well as liberation, idealism, originality, and spontaneity. Throughout the semester, I’ve continually asked myself: how would the Romantics have reacted and responded to recent neurobiological studies on human creativity, which describes creativity as merely a modulation of neurotransmitters in the frontal lobe and an interaction of the frontal lobes with the temporal lobes and dopamine from the limbic system. How would they transcend this materialism?
you should check out Alan Richardson's _British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind_
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recommendation. I actually ran across this book about a month ago. Unfortunately, it's too expensive!
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