Cognitive Poetics : : Goals, Gains and Gaps /

Cognitive Poetics : : Goals, Gains and Gaps / / ed. by Geert Brône, Jeroen Vandaele.

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For more than two decades now, cognitive science has been making overtures to literature and literary studies. Only recently, however, cognitive linguistics and poetics seem to be moving towards a more serious and reciprocal type of interdisciplinarity. In coupling cognitive linguistics and poetics,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Antonopoulou, Eleni,
Culpeper, Jonathan,
Dancygier, Barbara,
Erez, Shani,
Freeman, Margaret H.,
Herman, David,
Louwerse, Max,
Nikiforidou, Kiki,
Peer, Willie,
Semino, Elena,
Sternberg, Meir,
Tsur, Reuven,
Vandelanotte, Lieven,
HerausgeberIn:
Brône, Geert,
Vandaele, Jeroen,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (560 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Cognitive poetics. A critical introduction
  • Part I: Story
  • Text worlds
  • Cognitive approaches to narrative analysis
  • Reflections on a cognitive stylistic approach to characterisation
  • Part II: Figure
  • Minding: feeling, form, and meaning in the creation of poetic iconicity
  • Metaphor and figure-ground relationship: comparisons from poetry, music, and the visual arts
  • Part III: Stance
  • Deconstructing verbal humour with Construction Grammar
  • Judging distances: mental spaces, distance, and viewpoint in literary discourse
  • Does an “ironic situation” favor an ironic interpretation?
  • Part IV: Critique
  • How cognitive is cognitive poetics? The interaction between symbolic and embodied cognition
  • Epilogue. How (not) to advance toward the narrative mind
  • Backmatter

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