ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

part I|118 pages

Indigenous Non-Cognitive Approaches to Metaphor

chapter 1|17 pages

Systematizing Verbal Imagery

On a Sonnet by Du Bellay

chapter 3|18 pages

Literary Metaphor between Cognition and Narration

The Sandman Revisited

chapter 4|17 pages

Reaching beyond Silence

Metaphors of Ineffability in English Poetry—donne, Wordsworth, Keats, Eliot

chapter 5|19 pages

Literary Criticism Writes Back to Metaphor Theory

Exploring the Relation between Extended Metaphor and Narrative in Literature

chapter 6|22 pages

Metaphors in Context

The Communicative Structure of Figurative Language 1

part II|161 pages

Cognitive Metaphor Theory and Literary Analysis

chapter 7|21 pages

Conceptual Metaphor and Communication

An Austinian and Gricean Analysis of Brian Clark's Whose Life Is It Anyway?

chapter 9|18 pages

”One Should Never Underestimate the Power of Books”

Writing and Reading as Therapy in Paul Auster's Novels

chapter 10|28 pages

Metaphor Sets in The Turn of the Screw

What Conceptual Metaphors Reveal about Narrative Functions

chapter 11|14 pages

Hyperliteralist Metaphor

The Cognitive Poetics of Robert Musil in His Novella “die Portugiesin”