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

by Reuven Tsur

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845192559
• ISBN13: 9781845192556
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 683 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"