Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics - Second, Expanded & Updated Edition (Hardcover, expanded & updated ed)

This book has three distinctive characteristics: (1) It offers a widely interdisciplinary perspective; (2) It provides a comprehensive view of poetry, with groups of chapters on the Sound Stratum of Poetry (rhyme patterns and gestalt theory; metre and rhythm; expressiveness and musicality of speech sounds); the Units-of-Meaning Stratum (semantic representation and information processing, metaphor, rhyme and meaning, literary synaesthesia); the World Stratum; Regulative Concepts (genre, period style, archetypal patterns); the Poetry of Orientation and Disorientation (experiential and mystic poetry versus poetry of emotional disorientation; and the grotesque); the Poetry of Altered States of Consciousness (hypnotic and ecstatic poetry); Critics and Criticism; and Cognitive Poetics vs. Cognitive Linguistics; (3) It goes into minute details of poetic texts, so as to account for subtle intuitions of readers. Updating from the first edition consists of samples from the author's later instrumental study of the rhythmical performance of poetry and the expressiveness of speech sounds; and in three chapters responding to the later work of three cognitive linguists.

General

Imprint:	Sussex Academic Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	June 2008
Authors:	Reuven Tsur
Dimensions:	152 x 229 x 42mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	683
Edition:	expanded & updated ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-84519-255-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84519-255-9
Barcode:	9781845192556

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