TY - BOOK AU - Gavins Joanna AU - Gavins Joanna TI - Cognitive Poetics in Practice SN - 9780415277990 U1 - 808.1 GAV PY - 2003/// CY - London.New York PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Literature KW - Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures KW - Poetics KW - Cognitive grammar N1 - Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Contextualising cognitive poetics -- Cognitive poetics and other kinds of poetics -- Cognitive poetics and cognitive linguistics -- Conclusion and future prospects -- Surreal figures -- Making figures out -- Drawing attention: the edges of figures -- Further activities -- Prototypes in dynamic meaning construal -- The idea of prototypes -- Basic-level categories -- Problems with prototype theory -- Are conceptual metaphors prototypes? -- Prototypes as scripts in text understanding -- Embodied text understanding -- Implications -- Further activities -- Deixis and abstractions: adventures in space and time -- Sequential and spatial processing -- Time in poetry -- Further activities -- A cognitive grammar of 'Hospital Barge' by Wilfred Owen -- Profiles in 'Hospital Barge' by Wilfred Owen -- Concluding discussion -- Further activities -- 'Love stories': cognitive scenarios in love poetry -- From love scenarios to text content -- Text content and text types -- Conclusion -- Further activities -- Possible worlds and mental spaces in Hemingway's 'A very short story' -- The text for analysis -- Possible worlds theory and 'A very short story' -- Mental space theory and 'A very short story' -- Further activities -- Conceptual metaphor and its expressions -- Metaphorical language -- Blending -- Further activities -- Appendix -- Literature as parable -- Some preliminary background -- The cognitive process of parable -- Literature as parable -- A parabolic case study in literature -- Conclusion -- Further activities -- Too much blague? An exploration of the text worlds of Donald Barthelme's Snow White -- Text World Theory -- Snow White: A text world theory analysis -- Conclusion -- Further activities. Reading for pleasure: a cognitive poetic analysis of 'twists in the tale' and other plot reversals in narrative texts -- Contextual frame theory and plot reversals -- Understanding 'twists in the tale' and other plot reversals -- Conclusion -- Further activities -- Writingandreading: the future of cognitive poetics -- Mimesis -- Emotions, rasas, and the personal -- The uses of literature -- References -- Index N2 - Cognitive poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This student-friendly book provides a set of case studies to help students understand the theory and master the practice of cognitive poetics in analysis. In each chapter, contributors present a practical application of the methods and techniques of cognitive poetics to a range of texts, from Wilfred Owen to Roald Dahl. Cognitive Poetics in Practice is critical reading for students on courses in cognitive poetics, stylistics and literary linguistics. It can be used on its own or as a companion volume to Peter Stockwell's Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction. Michael Burke; Peter Crisp; Cathy Emmott; Joanna Gavins; Raymond Gibbs; Craig Hamilton; Keith Oatley; Elena Semino; Gerard Steen; Reuven Tsur. ER -