Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics: Second, Expanded & Updated Edition

This book has three distinctive characteristics: (1) It offers a widely interdisciplinary perspective; (2) It provides a comprehensive view of poetry, with groups of chapters on the Sound Stratum of Poetry (rhyme patterns and gestalt theory; metre and rhythm; expressiveness and musicality of speech sounds); the Units-of-Meaning Stratum (semantic representation and information processing, metaphor, rhyme and meaning, literary synaesthesia); the World Stratum; Regulative Concepts (genre, period style, archetypal patterns); the Poetry of Orientation and Disorientation (experiential and mystic poetry versus poetry of emotional disorientation; and the grotesque); the Poetry of Altered States of Consciousness (hypnotic and ecstatic poetry); Critics and Criticism; and Cognitive Poetics vs. Cognitive Linguistics; (3) It goes into minute details of poetic texts, so as to account for subtle intuitions of readers. Updating from the first edition consists of samples from the author's later
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Author: Reuven Tsur
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 03/01/2008
Pages: 683
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781845192563


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 244

About the Author
Reuven Tsur is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature and Cognitive Poetics at Tel Aviv University, and Middle East vice president of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. His books include "Kubla Khan" - Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality and Cognitive Style: A Study in Mental, Vocal, and Critical Performance; On The Shore of Nothingness: Space, Rhythm, and Semantic Structure in Religious Poetry and its Mystic-Secular Counterpart - A Study in Cognitive Poetics; and Poetic Rhythm: Structure and Performance - An Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics.