Joanna Gavins (ed.)

Cognitive Poetics in Practice

Herausgeber: Gavins, Joanna; Steen, Gerard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cognitive poetics involves the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This student-friendly book provides case studies to help students understand the theory and master the practice of cognitive poetic analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780415277990
• ISBN-10: 041527799X
• Artikelnr.: 22581021

Autorenporträt

Joanna Gavins is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Gerard Steen is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1 Contextualising cognitive poetics
2 Surreal figures
3 Prototypes in dynamic meaning construal
4 Deixis and abstractions: adventures in space and time
5 A cognitive grammar of 'Hospital Barge' by Wilfred Owen
6 'Love stories': cognitive scenarios in love poetry
7 Possible worlds and mental spaces in Hemingway's 'A very short story'
8 Conceptual metaphor and its expressions
9 Literature as parable
10 Too much blague? An exploration of the text worlds of Donald Barthelme's Snow White
11 Reading for pleasure: a cognitive poetic analysis of 'twists in the tale' and other plot reversals in narrative texts
12 Writingandreading: the future of cognitive poetics
References
Index