Forms and Shadows: A Cognitive-Poetic Reading of Charles Williams's Fiction

This book is a cognitive-poetic study of the seven novels of Charles Williams (1886-1945), a British author of spiritual fiction and non-fiction, a poet, playwright and a literary critic. It approaches his multidimensional narratives with reference to cognitive phenomena and mechanisms such as the figure-ground organization, conceptual metaphors, conceptual blending, image schemata, scripts, cognitive narrative frames, narrative spaces, cognitive deixis, and empathy. The methodology not only stresses the role of the reader's conceptual and emotional involvement in the building of the story-worlds, but also reveals the novels' polyphonic character.

"This book is a convincing and thought-provoking study of Charles Williams's fiction, which uncovers the unique, ambiguous senses of his works."
Prof. Grzegorz Maziarczyk,
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

List of contents

Cognitive-poetic study of the seven novels of Charles Williams (1886-1945) - Charles Williams' fiction approached with reference to cognitive phenomena and mechanisms - The figure-ground organization - Conceptual metaphors - Conceptual blending - Image schemata - Scripts - Deixis - Empathy

About the author

Andrzej S¿awomir Kowalczyk is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Maria Curie-Sk¿odowska University, Lublin, Poland. His current research areas include the supernatural in British fiction, the Gothic novel, utopia/dystopia in literature and film, as well as cognitive poetics. He published several works on these topics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Andrzej Kowalczyk (Editor), Andrzej S¿awomir Kowalczyk (Editor), Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9783631729731
• ISBN: 978-3-631-72973-1
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 26 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 530 g
• Illustrations: 9 Abb.
• Series: Mediated Fictions; Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives; Mediated Fictions; Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies