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The Muse and the Clockwork in the Clockwork Muse A Retrospective Review of Colin Martindale’s Magnum Opus
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The Raw Data Stylistic Change
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The Muse Colin’s theory Variation-selection model a la Darwin Selection Natural adaptive success Sexual hedonic value Variation Regression: Maximize primary process Elaboration: Minimize secondary process
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The Muse Implications: Trends in Arousal potential Primary process Stylistic change
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(Primary process)
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The Clockwork The research: Literary change Content analytical studies Poetry
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The Clockwork The research: Literary change Content analytical studies Poetry Short stories
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The Clockwork The research: Literary change Content analytical studies Poetry Short stories Lyrics for popular songs
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The Clockwork The research: Literary change Content analytical studies Poetry Short stories Lyrics for popular songs Literary criticism
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The Clockwork The research: Literary change Content analytical studies Experimental simulation
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A table is like _____ the sea, quiet a horizontal wall a formicaed [sic] bed the platonic form a dead tree a listening board versatile friendship vanquished forest a seasoned man two chairs
![A table is like _____ the sea, quiet a horizontal wall a formicaed [sic] bed the platonic form a dead tree a listening board versatile friendship vanquished forest a seasoned man two chairs](http://images.slideplayer.com/16/5065643/slides/slide_23.jpg "A table is like _____ the sea, quiet a horizontal wall a formicaed [sic] bed the platonic form a dead tree a listening board versatile friendship vanquished forest a seasoned man two chairs")
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A pencil is like ____ a yellow cigarette, spreading its cancer on paper the headwaters of a river, flowing from the mind to the world a black light on nothing a stiletto, piercing truth an artist’s brush, painting paper an ice scraper, unfreezing one’s view of the world
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A pencil is like ____ the scratchy fingers of an insomniac a grenade: useful, destructive, yet often self-destructive the neck of an hourglass God micturating upon the cosmos
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The Clockwork TAT stories
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The Clockwork And beyond …
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photographic and realistic Jean Baptiste Greuze The Village Bride 1761
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photographic but not realistic Gustave Moreau Oedipus and the Sphinx 1864
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even less realistic Yves Tanguy Mama, Papa Is Wounded! 1927
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neither photographic nor realistic Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm 1950
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Behaviorism Cognitive Psychology
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But … What about?
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