Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary Metaphor

by Fludernik; Monika

• ISBN13: 9780415888288
• ISBN10: 041588828X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with cognitive metaphor theory and have developed independently of it. While the cognitive approach has become the leading paradigm in the English speaking world, elsewhere (in Europe) rhetorical, semantic, and logical models have remained in use and continue to be elaborated. These models have so far had little international exposure. Their inclusion in this study is meant to provide a balance to the cognitive paradigm and to open up a possible discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of cognitive metaphor theory for the analysis of literary texts. The second aim of the collection is to illustrate a range of successful applications of the new cognitive models to literary texts. And, the third aim of the study is to provide an assessment of cognitive metaphor theory from a literary point of view.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Indigenous Non-Cognitive Approaches to Metaphor
Systematizing Verbal Imagery: On a Sonnet by Du Bellay	p. 19
Catachresis-A Metaphor or a Figure in Its Own Right?	p. 36
Literary Metaphor between Cognition and Narration: The Sandman Revisited	p. 58
Reaching Beyond Silence: Metaphors of Ineffability in English Poetry-Donne, Wordsworth, Keats, Eliot	p. 77
Literary Criticism Writes Back to Metaphor Theory: Exploring the Relation between Extended Metaphor and Narrative in Literature	p. 94
Metaphors in Context: The Communicative Structure of Figurative Language	p. 113
Cognitive Metaphor Theory and Literary Analysis
Conceptual Metaphor and Communication: An Austinian and Gricean Analysis of Brian Clark's Whose Life is it Anyway?	p. 137
The Role of Metaphor in Poetic Iconicity	p. 158
"One should never underestimate the power of books": Writing and Reading as Therapy in Paul Auster's Novels	p. 176
Metaphor Sets in The Turn of the Screw: What Conceptual Metaphors Reveal about Narrative Functions	p. 196
Hyperliteralist Metaphor: The Cognitive Poetics of Robert Musil in his Novella "Die Portugiesin"	p. 224
Storyworld Metaphors in Swift's Satire
Conventional Metaphor and the Latent Ideology of Racism	p. 258
The Journey Metaphor and the Source-Path-Goal Schema in Agnès Varda's Autobiographical gleaning Documentaries	p. 281
Contributors	p. 299
Author Index	p. 305
Subject Index	p. 309
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