Cognitive Grammar in Literature
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This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Sassoon, Balassi, and Dylan Thomas, as well as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Barrett Browning, Whitman, Owen and others. The application of Cognitive Grammar allows the discussion of meaning, translation, ambience, action, reflection, multimodality, empathy, experience and literariness itself to be conducted in newly valid ways. With a Foreword by the creator of Cognitive Grammar, Ronald Langacker, and an Afterword by the cognitive scientist Todd Oakley, the book represents the latest advance in literary linguistics, cognitive poetics and literary critical practice.

Table of Contents:
1. List of contributors; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Foreword (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 4. Chapter 1. Introduction: Cognitive Grammar in literature (by Harrison, Chloe); 5. Chapter 2. War, worlds and Cognitive Grammar (by Stockwell, Peter); 6. Chapter 3. Construal and comics: The multimodal autobiography of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home (by Pleyer, Michael); 7. Chapter 4. Attentional windowing in David Foster Wallace's 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy' (by Harrison, Chloe); 8. Chapter 5. Resonant metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (by Browse, Sam); 9. Chapter 6. Constructing a text world for The Handmaid's Tale (by Nuttall, Louise); 10. Chapter 7. Point of view in translation: Lewis Carroll's Alice in grammatical wonderlands (by Tabakowska, Elzbieta); 11. Chapter 8. Profiling the flight of 'The Windhover' (by Neary, Clara); 12. Chapter 9. Foregrounding the foregrounded: The literariness of Dylan Thomas's 'After the funeral' (by Paivarinta, Anne); 13. Chapter 10. Conceptual proximity and the experience of war in Siegfried Sassoon's 'A Working Party' (by Giovanelli, Marcello); 14. Chapter 11. Most and now: Tense and aspect in Balint Balassi's 'Aldott szep punkosdnek' (by Pincombe, Mike); 15. Chapter 12. Fictive motion in Wordsworthian nature (by Yuan, Wenjuan); 16. Chapter 13. The cognitive poetics of if (by Hamilton, Craig A.); 17. Chapter 14. Representing the represented: Verbal variations on Vincent's Bedroom in Arles (by Kwiatkowska, Alina); 18. Afterword: From Cognitive Grammar to systems rhetoric (by Oakley, Todd); 19. References; 20. Index

Review :
This stimulating collection of essays on narrative fiction and poetry, embracing multi-modality and translation, takes stylistics in a new direction. Cognitive grammar places meaning construction at its heart: and the applications here bravely test and probe the theory, whilst enriching our understanding of the texts themselves. An inspiring demonstration of the great reach of Cognitive Grammar to analyze complex communication. This edited volume is commendable in numerous ways. Firstly, it is groundbreaking in that it does without doubt represent the richest resource which attempts to marry CG and literary analysis thus far in the field of cognitive poetics. Secondly, the scope of literary works analysed with the use of CG in this edited collection is truly impressive.[...]this volume makes a compelling argument for the possibility and the usefulness of adopting the CG approach for the study of literature, and for extending CG to literary analysis. The authors provide groundbreaking, stimulating and creative analyses. It will be interesting to see how a cognitive grammar approach to literary analysis is further developed in future publications.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789027234049
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 255
  • Weight: 615 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9027234043
  • Publisher Date: 23 Apr 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 269
  • Series Title: 17 Linguistic Approaches to Literature


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