Cognitive Poetics

<p>A pioneering text in its first edition this revised publication of <i>Cognitive Poetics</i> offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis.</p><p>The second edition of this seminal text features:</p><p>• updated theory frameworks and examples throughout including new explanations of literary meaning the power of reading literary force and emotion; </p><p>• extended examples of literary texts from Old English to contemporary literature covering genres including religious realist romantic science fictional and surrealist texts and encompassing poetry prose and drama;</p><p>• new chapters on the mind-modelling of character the building of text-worlds the feeling of immersion and ambience and the resonant power of emotion in literature;</p><p>• fully updated and accessible accounts of Cognitive Grammar deictic shifts prototypicality conceptual framing and metaphor in literary reading.</p><p>Encouraging the reader to adopt a fresh approach to understanding literature and literary analyses each chapter introduces a different framework within cognitive poetics and relates it to a literary text. Accessibly written and reader-focused the book invites further explorations either individually or within a classroom setting.</p><p>This thoroughly revised edition of <i>Cognitive Poetics</i> includes an expanded further reading section and updated explorations and discussion points making it essential reading for students on literary theory and stylistics courses as well as a fundamental tool for those studying critical theory linguistics and literary studies. </p>