Cognitive grammar in literature /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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Colección: | Linguistic approaches to literature ;
v. 17. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cognitive Grammar in Literature
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. The practice of literary linguistics
- 2. Cognitive Grammar: An overview
- 2.1 Constructions
- 2.2 Construal
- 2.3 Specificity
- 2.4 Prominence
- 2.5 Action chains
- 2.6 Dynamicity
- 2.7 Perspective
- 2.8 Discourse
- 3. Literary adaptations from CG
- 3.1 Fictive simulation
- 3.2 Ambience
- 3.3 Point of view and consciousness
- 3.4 De- and re-familiarisation
- 3.5 Ethics: Responsibility and ascription
- 4. The state of the art
- Part I. Narrative fiction
- War, Worlds and cognitive Grammar
- 1. The grammatical battleground
- 2. The grammar of anticipation
- 3. The grammar of action
- 4. The grammar of ambience
- 5. The grammar of literature
- Construal and comics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fun Home
- a Gothic autobiography
- 3. Construal in Cognitive Grammar
- 4. Construal in Fun Home
- 4.1 Profiling
- 4.2 Profiling in Fun Home
- 4.3 Viewing arrangements
- 4.4 Viewing arrangements in Fun Home
- 5. The current discourse space model
- 6. Conclusion
- Attentional windowing in David Foster Wallace's 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy'
- 1. 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy'
- 2. Windows, profiles, splices
- 3. The cognitive turn vs. structuralism
- 4. Discourse event frames
- 5. Micro- and meso-windows
- 6. Conceptual splicing
- 7. Quantitative/ qualitative specificity
- 8. Conclusion
- Resonant Metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
- 1. Text-driven cognition
- 2. Metaphor, cognition and text
- 3. 'It seemed like we were holding on to each other because that was theonly way to stop us being swept away into the night': Analysing thetexture and resonance of simile
- 3.1 Cognitive Grammar and modality: Fictionalising the ground.
- 3.2 Cognitive Grammar and the force dynamics of modal similes: 'seemed like' versus 'was like'
- 3.3 The source domain as literary figure: Simile and resonance
- 4. Conclusion: More than mapping
- Constructing a text world for The Handmaid's Tale
- 1. World construal
- 2. Structuring reality
- 3. Building text worlds
- 4. Reading The Handmaid's Tale
- 5. Simulating experience
- Point of view in translation
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. POV
- 3. POV in Alice in Wonderland
- 4. Grammar
- 4.1 Reference
- 4.2 Processes
- 4.3 Epistemic modality
- 4.4 Units and constructions
- 4.5 Iconicity
- 5. The grammar of paratext
- 6. Conclusions
- Part II. Studies of poetry
- Profiling the flight of 'The Windhover'
- 1. Introduction: Literature and Cognitive Grammar
- 2. Profiling Hopkins' 'The Windhover'
- Foregrounding the foregrounded
- Conceptual proximity and the experience of war in siegfried sassoon's 'A working party'
- 1. Introduction
- 2. 'A working party' and the importance of 1916
- 3. The distribution of -ing forms
- 4. The third person pronoun 'he'
- 5. Reference point relationships and action chains
- 6. Conclusion
- Most and now
- 1. The poem
- 2. The song-situation
- 3. Tense and aspect in Hungarian
- 4. Taylor on tense and aspect
- 5. Greimas and Courtés on aspectualisation
- 6. Conclusion
- Fictive Motion in Wordsworthian nature
- 1. Wordsworth and the picturesque
- 2. Fictive motion
- 3. Fictive motion in Wordsworthian nature
- 3.1 Light and shadow travels
- 3.2 Mountains rise
- 3.3 The hedge-rows run
- 4. Discussion: Dynamicity, fictivity and subjectivity in Wordsworthian nature
- The cognitive poetics of If
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Conditional usage
- 3. Definitions
- 4. Poetic examples
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusion
- Representing the represented.
- Sheena Blackhall: 'Vincent's Bedroom in Arles, Painted 1888'
- Adam Strickson: 'Vincent and I discuss "Bedroom at Arles" (Version 3)'
- David Jibson: 'Vincent'
- Michael Dylan Welch: 'Bedroom in Arles'
- Toshiko Hirata: 'Van Gogh's Bedroom as I See It' (transl. Jeffrey Angles)
- Dónall Dempsey: 'Little Girl Lost in Vincent's Bedroom'
- Nancy Scott: 'Bedroom in Arles'
- Afterword
- References
- Index.