The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding

by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.

Book Overview

In this bold new work, Ray Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination constitutes the way we understand ourselves and the world in which we live. The traditional view of the mind holds that thought and language are inherently literal and that poetic language is a special human ability requiring different cognitive and linguistic skills than employed in ordinary language. This view has imposed serious limitations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521429927
• ISBN13: 9780521429924
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"