Cognitive Poetics - An Introduction

This thoroughly revised edition of Cognitive Poetics includes updated explorations and discussion points, making it essential reading for students on literary theory and stylistics courses, as well as a fundamental tool for those studying critical theory, linguistics and literary studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction: body, mind, and literature


2. Prototypicality and contexts


3. Figures and ground
   
4. Deixis and projection


5. Texture and resonance


6. Cognitive Grammar


7. Schemas and frames


8. Conceptual metaphor


9. Blending and compression


10. Text-worlds


11. Mind-modelling


12. Immersion and ambience


13. Directions and connections


14. Key readings

About the author

Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Summary

This thoroughly revised edition of Cognitive Poetics includes updated explorations and discussion points, making it essential reading for students on literary theory and stylistics courses, as well as a fundamental tool for those studying critical theory, linguistics and literary studies.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Stockwell, Stockwell Peter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138781368
• ISBN: 978-1-138-78136-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science, Literary theory, Cognitive studies, Cognitive Science