Description
Book SynopsisA pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis.
The second edition of this seminal text features:
updated theory, frameworks, and examples throughout, including new explanations of literary meaning, the power of reading, literary force, and emotion;
extended examples of literary texts from Old English to contemporary literature, covering genres including religious, realist, romantic, science fictional, and surrealist texts, and encompassing poetry, prose, and drama;
new chapters on the mind-modelling of character, the building of text-worlds, the feeling of immersion and ambience, and the resonant power of emotion in literature;
fully updated and accessible accounts of Cognitive Grammar, deictic shifts, prototypicality, conceptual framing, and metaphor in literary reading.
Encouraging the reader to adopt a fre
Table of Contents
- Introduction: body, mind, and literature
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- Prototypicality and contexts
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- Figures and ground
- Deixis and projection
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- Texture and resonance
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- Cognitive Grammar
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- Schemas and frames
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- Conceptual metaphor
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- Blending and compression
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- Text-worlds
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- Mind-modelling
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- Immersion and ambience
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- Directions and connections
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- Key readings
