3. Gestalt Qualities in Poetry and the Reader’s Absorption Style

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Kubla Khan: Or a Vision in a Dream, a Fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Criticism and Meta-Criticism
6. 1. “Kubla Khan” and the Implied Critic’s Decision Style 11
7. 2. The Texture and Structure of “Kubla Khan” 79
8. Part Two: The Reader and Real Readers
9. 3. Gestalt Qualities in Poetry and the Reader’s Absorption Style 115
10. Part Three: Vox Humana
11. 4. Performing “Kubla Khan” — An Instrumental Study of Four Readings 143
12. Afterword
13. Integration and Wider Perspectives 205
14. References 235
15. Index 245