
Andrew Michael Roberts, Lisa Otty, Martin H. Fischer and Anna Katharina Schaffner provide a discussion of their interdisciplinary investigations which took place under the aegis of the 2009-11 research project Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition. The project brought together literary critics, psychologists and creative artists for multidisciplinary study of poetry and poetic artifacts, such as concrete poetry, visual poetry, artist’s books, poetry photography, and electronic poetry. Applying both literary-historical approaches and methods of cognitive psychology, the project examined reading as a physical and cognitive. The project further resulted in artworks based on these ideas, some of which involved collaborations between artists and psychologists. John Cayley’s Lens and Tower, by Simon Biggs and Mark Shovman are examined in the context of this framing investigation.
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