For more than two decades now, cognitive science has been making
overtures to literature and literary studies. Only recently, however,
cognitive linguistics and poetics seem to be moving towards a more
serious and reciprocal type of interdisciplinarity. In coupling
cognitive linguistics and poetics, cognitive poeticians aim to offer
cognitive readings of literary texts and formulate specific hypotheses
concerning the relationship between aesthetic meaning effects and
patterns in the cognitive construal and processing of literary texts.
One of the basic assumptions of the endeavour is that some of the key
topics in poetics (such as the construction of text worlds,
characterization, narrative perspective, distancing discourse, etc.)
may be fruitfully approached by applying cognitive linguistic concepts
and insights (such as embodied cognition, metaphor, mental spaces,
iconicity, construction grammar, figure/ground alignment, etc.), in an
attempt to support, enrich or adjust ‘traditional’ poetic
analysis. Conversely, the tradition of poetics may support, frame or
call into question insights form cognitive linguistics. In order to
capture the goals, gains and gaps of this rapidly growing
interdisciplinary field of research, this volume brings together some
of the key players and critics of cognitive poetics. The eleven
chapters are grouped into four major sections, each dealing with
central concerns of the field: (i) the cognitive mechanisms,
discursive means and mental products related to narrativity (Semino,
Herman, Culpeper); (ii) the different incarnations of the concept of
figure in cognitive poetics (Freeman, Steen, Tsur); (iii) the
procedures that are meant to express or create discursive attitudes,
like humour, irony or distance in general (Antonopoulou and
Nikiforidou, Dancygier and Vandelanotte, Giora et al.); and (iv) a
critical assessment of the current state of affairs in cognitive
poetics, and more specifically the incorporation of insights from
cognitive linguistics as only one of the contributing fields in the
interdisciplinary conglomerate of cognitive science (Louwerse and Van
Peer, Sternberg). The ensuing dialogue between cognitive and literary
partners, as well as between advocates and opponents, is promoted
through the use of short response articles included after ten chapters
of the volume. Geert Brône, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;
Jeroen Vandaele, University of Oslo, Norway.
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ISBN
9783110213379
Publisert
2015
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De Gruyter Mouton
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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