ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with an overview of important topics, perspectives, and problems in Cognitive Poetics, and next takes poetic metaphor theory as a central case. First, it discusses Conceptual Metaphor Theory in relation to Aristotle and poetic metaphor. Second, it expounds other cognitive views of metaphor and relates them to poetics: Interaction Theory, Relevance Theory, Blending Theory, Bidirectionality Theory, and the class inclusion hypothesis. Third, it discusses aspects of form. Fourth, it proposes an interdisciplinary template for further analysis. Finally, it connects its discussion of poetic metaphor with the aims of (cognitive) poetics.
