By linking Frye's classic studies to exciting recent approaches in the humanities and the cognitive revolution of the past few decades, Body of Vision casts Frye's achievements in a fascinating new light.

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction: Landscapes and Prospects

Chapter 1. Cognition, Meaning and Culture

“Systems That Won’t Quite Do”: Schematic Structure in Literary Myth, Metaphor, and Models

Chapter 2. Cognition, Culture and Literature

Spatial and Spiritual Orders: Metaphoric Coherence in Dante’s and Frye’s Cosmologies

Chapter 3. Cognition, Culture and Society

Family, City, and Body Politic: Metaphor and Framing in Social Thought

Chapter 4. Cognition, Culture and History

Pastorals With Power: Universal Nature and the Sociology of Genre

Conclusion

Minds Transfigured Together: Metaphor, Myth, and Culture in Mind

Works Cited

Notes

“In Body of Vision Michael Sinding has taken on a large intellectual assignment, involving a great deal of hard thinking, and he has succeeded splendidly. I know of no one else in Frye studies who has written so knowledgeably and non-tendentiously about Frye’s ideas in relation to cognitive poetics and poststructuralism. It is something of a marvel how much this tightly reasoned and beautifully organized book contains.”

"In Body of Vision Michael Sinding has taken on a large intellectual assignment, involving a great deal of hard thinking, and he has succeeded splendidly. I know of no one else in Frye studies who has written so knowledgeably and non-tendentiously about Frye's ideas in relation to cognitive poetics and poststructuralism. It is something of a marvel how much this tightly reasoned and beautifully organized book contains." -- Alvin Lee, General Editor, The Collected Works of Northrop Frye "Timely, relevant, and insightful, Body of Vision is a thoughtful and revealing study of Northrop Frye's important contribution to the field of cognitive poetics. There is a pan-historical continuity in the 'metaphors we live by,' Frye showed, a continuity that has at least as much to do with how the brain works as with where the brain finds itself. The inference deserves a hearing and Sinding proves to be an ideal listener for such as these mindful patterns that continue to challenge and improve findings in cultural studies and the variety of social concern criticisms." -- Jeffery Donaldson, Department of English, McMaster University