ABSTRACT
Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts introduces an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds, namely the contexts, scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in their interaction with the language of texts. The book demonstrates in detail three ways of approaching poetic text worlds, namely as discourse situations, possible worlds, and mental constructs. Clear and detailed introductions to linguistic theories of definiteness and deixis, possible world theory and schema theory are included, making the book accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with these frameworks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part |42 pages
Poetic Text Worlds As Discourse Situations
chapter |16 pages
Definiteness, indefiniteness and context creation
chapter |21 pages
Deixis and context creation
part |62 pages
Poetic Text Worlds As Possible Worlds
chapter |29 pages
Possible-world theory, fiction and literature
chapter |25 pages
Possible-world theory and the analysis of poetic text worlds
part |117 pages
Poetic Text Worlds As Cognitive Constructs