Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: body, mind, and literature
Reading literature
Founding principles of cognitive poetics
A new introduction
2 Prototypicality and contexts
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Prototype effects
Cognitive models and situatedness
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
3 Figures and ground
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Figure and ground in text
Image schemas
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
4 Deixis and projection
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Deixis
Deictic shift theory
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
5 Texture and resonance
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Prototypicality and deviation
Attention-resonance
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
6 Cognitive Grammar
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Action chains
Construal
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
7 Schemas and frames
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Conceptual dependency
Literary schemas
Framing and literature
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
8 Conceptual metaphor
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Metaphor as mapping
Conceptual metaphor theory
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
9 Blending and compression
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Meaning and macrostructure
Mental spaces and blends
Compression and projection
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
10 Text-worlds
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Possible worlds
Text-worlds and participants
World-switches
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
11 Mind-modelling
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Characterisation
Empathy and mind-casting
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
12 Immersion and ambience
Preview
Links with literary critical concepts
Engaging in the fictional world
A feeling for the fictional world
Discussion
Cognitive poetic analysis
Explorations
Sources and further reading
13 Directions and connections
Beginning cognitive poetics
Recognising resolutions
The last words
Ends
14 Key readings
References
Index