Cognitive Poetics: A New Introduction

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Routledge, Jun 29, 2005 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 208 pages
Cognitive poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This book is the first introductory text to this growing field.
In Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction, the reader is encouraged to re-evaluate the categories used to understand literary reading and analysis. Covering a wide range of literary genres and historical periods, the book encompasses both American and European approaches. Each chapter explores a different cognitive-poetic framework and relates it to a literary text. Including a range of activities, discussion points, suggestions for further reading and a glossarial index, the book is both interactive and highly accessible.
Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction is essential reading for students on stylistics and literary-linguistic courses, and will be of interest to all those involved in literary studies, critical theory and linguistics.
 

Contents

Introduction body mind and literature
1
Figures and grounds
13
Links with literary critical concepts
14
Figure and ground
15
Attention
18
Discussion
20
Cognitive poetic analysis
21
Explorations
24
Discussion
98
Cognitive poetic analysis
99
Explorations
103
Conceptual metaphor
105
Links with literary critical concepts
106
Conceptual metaphor
109
Discussion
111
Cognitive poetic analysis
112

Further reading and references
25
Prototypes and reading
27
Prototypes
28
Categories
31
Cognitive models
32
Discussion
34
parodies
35
Explorations
39
Further reading and references
40
Cognitive deixis
41
Deixis
43
Deictic shift theory
46
Discussion
49
Wuthering Heights
50
Explorations
55
Further reading and references
56
Cognitive grammar
59
Stylistic prototypicality
60
Action chains
64
Discussion
66
George Hebert
67
Explorations
70
Further reading and references
73
Scripts and schemas
75
Links with literary critical concepts
76
Literary schemas
78
Discussion
81
Cognitive poetic analysis
82
Explorations
87
Further reading and references
88
Discourse worlds and mental spaces
91
Possible worlds and discourse worlds
92
Mental spaces
96
Explorations
117
Further reading and references
119
Literature as parable
121
Meaning and macrostructure
122
Parable and projection
124
Discussion
127
Cognitive poetic analysis
128
Explorations
132
Further reading and references
133
Text worlds
135
Text worlds and participants
136
Subworlds
140
Discussion
142
Cognitive poetic analysis
143
Explorations
148
Further reading and references
149
The comprehension of literature
151
Experiencing literary narratives
152
Narrative comprehension
155
Discussion
158
Explorations
162
Further reading and references
163
The last words
165
Texture
167
Discourse
168
Ideology
170
Emotion
171
Imagination
173
Beginning cognitive poetics
174
References
175
Bibliography
177
Glossarial index
189
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Peter Stockwell is Senior Lecturer at the University of Nottingham. His publications include Sociolinguistics: A resource book for students, Contextualised Stylistics: An introduction to the nature and functions of language (with Howard Jackson) and the Poetics of Science Fiction.

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