Limits of Expression - Language, Literature, Mind

A radically new view of the interplay between language, literature and mind.

List of contents

Prologue; 1. The question of expressibility or how far it is possible to speak our mind; 2. Language, world and mind; 3. The curse of the phenomenal: a case from Kinaesthesia; 4. After structural essentialism what? Implications for the inadequacy of language thesis; 5. Literature as artifact v literature as a cognitive object. Implications for linguistic pessimism; 6. Literature as meaning v literature as experience; 7. Interdisciplinarity, theory and the sciences of mind; Afterword.

About the author

Patricia Kolaiti is a Lecturer at New York College, Athens. From 2011–14, she was Associate Researcher with the Balzan project on 'Literature as an Object of Knowledge' based at St John's College Research Centre, Oxford. She is a published poet, and her collection Celesteia (2007) was nominated for the 2008 First Book Diavazo Award in Greece.

Summary

Exploring 'the prison house of language', this book radically alters our view of the interplay between language, literature and mind; it reconsiders a wide range of interdisciplinary issues of particular interest to linguists, cognitive psychologists and literary/art theorists, sketching new directions for literary study in the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Kolaiti, Kolaiti Patricia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108418669
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41866-9
• No. of pages: 150
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc