Cognitive Poetics: A New IntroductionCognitive poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This book is the first introductory text to this growing field. In Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction, the reader is encouraged to re-evaluate the categories used to understand literary reading and analysis. Covering a wide range of literary genres and historical periods, the book encompasses both American and European approaches. Each chapter explores a different cognitive-poetic framework and relates it to a literary text. Including a range of activities, discussion points, suggestions for further reading and a glossarial index, the book is both interactive and highly accessible. Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction is essential reading for students on stylistics and literary-linguistic courses, and will be of interest to all those involved in literary studies, critical theory and linguistics. |
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Contents
Introduction body mind and literature | 1 |
Figures and grounds | 13 |
Links with literary critical concepts | 14 |
Figure and ground | 15 |
Attention | 18 |
Discussion | 20 |
Cognitive poetic analysis | 21 |
Explorations | 24 |
Discussion | 98 |
Cognitive poetic analysis | 99 |
Explorations | 103 |
Conceptual metaphor | 105 |
Links with literary critical concepts | 106 |
Conceptual metaphor | 109 |
Discussion | 111 |
Cognitive poetic analysis | 112 |
Further reading and references | 25 |
Prototypes and reading | 27 |
Prototypes | 28 |
Categories | 31 |
Cognitive models | 32 |
Discussion | 34 |
parodies | 35 |
Explorations | 39 |
Further reading and references | 40 |
Cognitive deixis | 41 |
Deixis | 43 |
Deictic shift theory | 46 |
Discussion | 49 |
Wuthering Heights | 50 |
Explorations | 55 |
Further reading and references | 56 |
Cognitive grammar | 59 |
Stylistic prototypicality | 60 |
Action chains | 64 |
Discussion | 66 |
George Hebert | 67 |
Explorations | 70 |
Further reading and references | 73 |
Scripts and schemas | 75 |
Links with literary critical concepts | 76 |
Literary schemas | 78 |
Discussion | 81 |
Cognitive poetic analysis | 82 |
Explorations | 87 |
Further reading and references | 88 |
Discourse worlds and mental spaces | 91 |
Possible worlds and discourse worlds | 92 |
Mental spaces | 96 |
Explorations | 117 |
Further reading and references | 119 |
Literature as parable | 121 |
Meaning and macrostructure | 122 |
Parable and projection | 124 |
Discussion | 127 |
Cognitive poetic analysis | 128 |
Explorations | 132 |
Further reading and references | 133 |
Text worlds | 135 |
Text worlds and participants | 136 |
Subworlds | 140 |
Discussion | 142 |
Cognitive poetic analysis | 143 |
Explorations | 148 |
Further reading and references | 149 |
The comprehension of literature | 151 |
Experiencing literary narratives | 152 |
Narrative comprehension | 155 |
Discussion | 158 |
Explorations | 162 |
Further reading and references | 163 |
The last words | 165 |
Texture | 167 |
Discourse | 168 |
Ideology | 170 |
Emotion | 171 |
Imagination | 173 |
Beginning cognitive poetics | 174 |
References | 175 |
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