What good is a new paradigm for the Humanities based on cognitive science if it leads us back to Tennysonian poetics? Nothing wrong with Tennyson, but it's hard to believe our brains are hard-wired to be Victorian--as opposed to Baroque, neo-classical, modernist, postmodernist, neo-ante-diluvian, or what have you.

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The BAP face-off will appear in Octopus fairly soon.