Cognitive Poetics in Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415277990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 204 str.

Joanna Gavins

Opis

Cognitive Poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This student-friendly book provides a set of case studies to help students understand the theory and master the practice of cognitive poetics in analysis.
Written by a range of well-known scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries, Cognitive Poetics in Practice offers students a unique insight into this exciting subject. In each chapter, contributors present a practical application of the methods and techniques of cognitive poetics, to a range of texts, from Wilfred Owen to Roald Dahl. The editors' general introduction provides an overview of the field, and each chapter begins with an editors' introduction to set the chapter in context. Specifically designed sections suggesting further activities for students are also provided at the end of each case study.
Cognitive Poetics in Practice can be used on its own or as a companion volume to Peter Stockwell's Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction.
This book is critical reading for students on courses in cognitive poetics, stylistics and literary linguistics and will be of interest to all those involved in literary studies, critical theory and linguistics.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.