Cognitive Poetics in Practice (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements, List of contributors, 1 Contextualising cognitive poetics, 2 Surreal figures, 3 Prototypes in dynamic meaning construal, 4 Deixis and abstractions: adventures in space and time, 5 A cognitive grammar of ‘Hospital Barge’ by Wilfred Owen, 6 ‘Love stories’: cognitive scenarios in love poetry, 7 Possible worlds and mental spaces in Hemingway’s ‘A very short story’, 8 Conceptual metaphor and its expressions, 9 Literature as parable, 10 Too much blague? An exploration of the text worlds of Donald Barthelme’s Snow White, 11 Reading for pleasure: a cognitive poetic analysis of ‘twists in the tale’ and other plot reversals in narrative texts, 12 Writingandreading: the future of cognitive poetics, References, Index