TY - BOOK AU - Tsur, Reuven AU - Tsur, Reuven TI - Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics SN - 9781845192563 U1 - 808.1 TSU PY - 2008/// CY - [England] ; Portland PB - Sussex Academic Press KW - Literature KW - Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures KW - Poetics -- Psychological aspects KW - Cognitive grammar KW - Poetik -- psykologiska aspekter KW - Kognitive Linguistik KW - Poetik N1 - Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- General Assumptions. The Nature of Cognitive Poetics -- Mental and Vocal Performance in Poetry Reading -- Constructing a Stable World -- Poetic Structure and Percieved Qualities -- The Sound Stratum of Poetry. Rhyme Patterns, Gestalt Theory, and Perceptual Forces -- Metre and Rhythm -- Delivery Style and Listener Response -- an Empirical Study -- Expressiveness and Musicality of Speech Sounds -- The Units-of-Meaning Stratum. Semantic Representation and Information Processing -- Literary Synaesthesia -- The World Stratum. The Representative Anecdote: Human Contingency -- Regulative Concepts. The Versatile Reader: Style as Open Concept -- Style as a Diagnosis and as Hypothesis -- Practical Application: The Ballad "Edward" -- Archetypal Patterns -- Poetry of Orientation & Disorientation. Space Perception and Poetry of Orientation -- Poetry of Disorientation -- The Grotesque as an Aesthetic Mode -- Poetry of Altered States of Consciousness. Poetry and Altered States of Consciousness -- Obtrusive Rhythms and Emotive Crescendo -- The Divergent Passage and Ecstatic Poetry -- Critics and Criticism. The Implied Critic's Decision Style -- The Critic's Mental Dictionary -- Cognitive Poetics and Cognitive Linguistics. Lakoff's Roads Not Taken -- Deixis in Literature: What Isn't Cognitive Poetics? -- Comparing Approaches to Versification Style in Cyrano de Bergerac -- References -- Index ER -