Body of Vision : : Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Mind / / Michael Sinding.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package 2014-2016
• VerfasserIn: Sinding, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

In Body of Vision, Michael Sinding connects Northrop Frye's groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the human imagination with cognitive poetics - the cutting-edge school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science to the interpretation of literary texts and contexts. Sinding undertakes this task through analyses of the interplay of metaphoric and narrative schemas in several forms of cultural mythology.Sinding identifies the profound connections between cognitive views of language, literature, and culture and Frye's views by exploring three related aspects of Frye's work - meaning and thought, culture and society, and literary history. He investigates these connections through detailed studies of major cultural texts including Dante's Divine Comedy, Hobbes' Leviathan, Rousseau's Social Contract, and Milton's ";Lycidas."; By linking Frye's classic studies to exciting recent approaches in the humanities and the cognitive revolution of the past few decades, Body of Vision casts Frye's achievements in a fascinating new light.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Landscapes and Prospects -- 1. "Systems That Won't Quite Do": Schematic Structure in Literary Metaphor, Myth, and Models -- 2. Spatial and Spiritual Orders: Metaphoric Coherence in Dante's and Frye's Cosmologies -- 3. Family, City, and Body Politic: Metaphor and Framing in Social Thought -- 4. Pastorals with Power: Universal Nature and the Cultural History of Genre -- Conclusion. Minds Transfigured Together: Metaphor, Myth, and Culture in Mind -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index