Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry - The Cognitive Poetics of Desire, Dreams and Nightmares

Text World Theory and Keats'' Poetry applies advances in cognitive poetics and text world theory to four poems by the nineteenth century poet John Keats. It takes the existing text world theory as a starting point and draws on stylistics, literary theory, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and dream theories to explore reading poems in the light of their emphasis on states of desire, dreaming and nightmares. It accounts for the representation of these states and the ways in which they are likely to be processed, monitored and understood. Text World Theory and Keats'' Poetry advances both the current field of cognitive stylistics but also analyses Keats in a way that offers new insights into his poetry. It is of interest to stylisticians and those in literary studies.>

About the author

Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Aston University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Marcello Giovanelli, Marcello Giovanelli Giovanelli
• Assisted by: Dan Mcintyre (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9781474222891
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-2289-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Advances in Stylistics; Advances in Stylistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Discourse Analysis, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literary studies: poetry and poets