What is it about?
Cognitive metaphorical analysis of several poems contributes toward a theory of literature that is descriptive, explanatory, theoretical, predictive, demonstrative, evaluative, and elegant.
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A cognitive poetics reading of the few poems discussed in this paper shows just how powerful the theory of cognitive poetics can be in capturing the power, the effect, and the relevance of poetry. Its power includes the ability to identify artistic forgery.
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The kind of analysis cognitive poetics provides opens up the cognitive layers upon which a literary text is built and, in doing so, provides a reading that reveals the frame and structure of meaning that is endemic and central to the text itself. It makes explicit the cognitive skills we apply implicitly when we analyze literary texts.
Professor Margaret H. Freeman
Los Angeles Valley College
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This page is a summary of: Poetry and the scope of metaphor: Toward a cognitive theory of literature, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/9783110894677.253.
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