Body of Vision - Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Mind

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.

List of contents

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction: Landscapes and Prospects

Chapter 1. Cognition, Meaning and Culture

“Systems That Won’t Quite Do”: Schematic Structure in Literary Myth, Metaphor, and Models

Chapter 2. Cognition, Culture and Literature

Spatial and Spiritual Orders: Metaphoric Coherence in Dante’s and Frye’s Cosmologies

Chapter 3. Cognition, Culture and Society

Family, City, and Body Politic: Metaphor and Framing in Social Thought

Chapter 4. Cognition, Culture and History

Pastorals With Power: Universal Nature and the Sociology of Genre

Conclusion

Minds Transfigured Together: Metaphor, Myth, and Culture in Mind

Works Cited

Notes

About the author

Michael Sinding

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Sinding, University of Toronto Press Scholarly Pu
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2014
• EAN: 9781442643918
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4391-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Frye Studies; Frye Studies (Hardcover); Frye Studies; Frye Studies (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories