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 Brone, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Jeroen Vandaele, University of Oslo,
Norway.
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