ABSTRACT

Cognitive poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This book is the first introductory text to this growing field.
In Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction, the reader is encouraged to re-evaluate the categories used to understand literary reading and analysis. Covering a wide range of literary genres and historical periods, the book encompasses both American and European approaches. Each chapter explores a different cognitive-poetic framework and relates it to a literary text. Including a range of activities, discussion points, suggestions for further reading and a glossarial index, the book is both interactive and highly accessible.
Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction is essential reading for students on stylistics and literary-linguistic courses, and will be of interest to all those involved in literary studies, critical theory and linguistics.

chapter 2|14 pages

Figures and grounds

chapter 3|14 pages

Prototypes and reading

chapter 4|18 pages

Cognitive deixis

chapter 5|16 pages

Cognitive grammar

chapter 6|16 pages

Scripts and schemas

chapter 7|14 pages

Discourse worlds and mental spaces

chapter 8|16 pages

Conceptual metaphor

chapter 9|14 pages

Literature as parable

chapter 10|16 pages

Text worlds

chapter 11|14 pages

The comprehension of literature

chapter 12|12 pages

The last words