Picturing fiction through embodied cognition : : drawn representations and viewpoint in literary texts. / / Bien Klomberg, Theresa Schilhab and Michael Burke.

"This concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses, determines individuals' mental 'vision,' employing an innovative cross-disciplinary approach using readers' drawings of their mental imagery during reading. The...

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Superior document:Routledge focus on linguistics
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY ;, Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Routledge focus on linguistics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (155 pages)
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Summary:"This concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses, determines individuals' mental 'vision,' employing an innovative cross-disciplinary approach using readers' drawings of their mental imagery during reading. The book engages in critical dialogue with the perceived wisdom in stylistics rooted in Roger Fowler's seminal work on deixis and point of view to test whether or not this theory can fully account for what readers see in their mind's eye and how they see it. The work draws on findings from a study of English and Dutch across a range of literary texts, in which participants read literary text fragments and were then asked to immediately draw representations of what they had seen envisioned. Building on the work of Fowler and more recent theoretical and empirical language-based studies in the area, Klomberg, Schilhab and Burke argue that models from embodied cognitive science can help account for anomalies in evidence from readers' drawings, indicating new ways forward for interdisciplinary understandings of individual meaning construction in literary textual interfaces. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in stylistics, cognitive psychology, rhetoric, and philosophy, particularly those working in embodied cognition"--
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1003225306
1000575233
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Bien Klomberg, Theresa Schilhab and Michael Burke.