Gavins Joanna, Steen Gerard (Editors). Cognitive poetics in practice

Routledge, 2003. — xii, 188 pages. — ISBN: 0-203-41918-9.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.
Written by a range of well-known scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries, Cognitive Poetics in Practice offers students a unique insight into this exciting subject. 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.Contextualising cognitive poetics
Surreal figures
Prototypes in dynamic meaning construal
Deixis and abstractions: adventures in space and time
A cognitive grammar of ‘Hospital Barge’ by Wilfred Owen
‘Love stories’: cognitive scenarios in love poetry
Possible worlds and mental spaces in Hemingway’s ‘A very short story’
Conceptual metaphor and its expressions
Literature as parable
Too much blague? An exploration of the text worlds of Donald Barthelme’s Snow White
Reading for pleasure: a cognitive poetic analysis of ‘twists in the tale’ and other plot reversals in narrative texts
Writing and reading: the future of cognitive poetics