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Exploring Colin Martindale’s Influence: The Muse and the Clockwork in Literary Change

This retrospective review examines Colin Martindale’s magnum opus, "The Muse and the Clockwork," highlighting his variation-selection model inspired by Darwinian principles. The work explores the natural and adaptive success of literary trends through stylistic changes in poetry, short stories, and pop lyrics. By analyzing primary processes of creativity and their implications on arousal potential, it reveals insights into literary evolution and the relationship between cognitive psychology and the arts.

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Exploring Colin Martindale’s Influence: The Muse and the Clockwork in Literary Change

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  1. The Muse and the Clockwork in the Clockwork Muse A Retrospective Review of Colin Martindale’s Magnum Opus

  2. The Raw Data Stylistic Change

  3. 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

  4. The Muse • Implications: Trends in • Arousal potential • Primary process • Stylistic change

  5. (Primary process)

  6. The Clockwork • The research: Literary change • Content analytical studies • Poetry

  7. The Clockwork • The research: Literary change • Content analytical studies • Poetry • Short stories

  8. The Clockwork • The research: Literary change • Content analytical studies • Poetry • Short stories • Lyrics for popular songs

  9. The Clockwork • The research: Literary change • Content analytical studies • Poetry • Short stories • Lyrics for popular songs • Literary criticism

  10. The Clockwork • The research: Literary change • Content analytical studies • Experimental simulation

  11. 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 _____

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. The Clockwork • TAT stories

  15. The Clockwork • And beyond …

  16. Jean Baptiste Greuze The Village Bride 1761 photographic and realistic

  17. Gustave Moreau Oedipus and the Sphinx 1864 photographic but not realistic

  18. Yves Tanguy Mama, Papa Is Wounded! 1927 even less realistic

  19. Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm 1950 neither photographic nor realistic

  20. Cognitive Psychology Behaviorism

  21. But … • What about?

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