Book Article

Aspects of cognitive poetics

Cognitive Linguistics

Tsur, Reuven. 2002. Aspects of cognitive poetics. Book Article. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 279-318

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Cognitive poetics "offers cognitive theories that systematically account for the relationship between the structure of literary texts and their perceived effects." as a response to "impressionist critics" who "indulge in the effects of literary texts, but have difficulties of relating the their structures" and "structuralist critics who excel in the description of the structure of literary texts, but it is not always clear what the human significance is of these texts, or how their perceived effects can be accounted for." (p. 379)"During the past sixty years or so, the word