Poetry in the Mind: The Cognition of Contemporary Poetic Style

by Joanna Gavins

Overview

Joanna Gavins presents some of the newest and most influential ideas in cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics through clearly explained, practical analyses of the work of some of the most popular and celebrated poets currently writing in the British Isles. Through analysis of works by Jo Bell, Simon Armitage, Sinead Morrissey, John Burnside, Alice Oswald and Kate Tempest she demonstrates the practical use of cognitive frameworks as a means of understanding poetry and its effects. Gavins examines cutting edge concepts in cognition including world-building, conceptual integration, embodiment, and distributed cognition and develops our understanding of key notions in poetics such as poetic metre, performance, metaphor and intertextuality.
Each chapter of the book addresses a central poetic notion or feature of poetic style from an innovative cognitive perspective, shedding new light on established ideas about poetic creativity and language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474420709
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	10/27/2020
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joanna Gavins is Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. Joanna’s publications include Poetry in the Mind (EUP, 2020), Reading the Absurd (EUP, 2013) and Text World Theory: An Introduction (EUP, 2007). She is also co-editor of World Building: Discourse in the Mind (2016) and Cognitive Poetics in Practice (2003). She has published widely on stylistics, cognitive poetics, literary absurdism and contemporary poetry, and has presented her work around the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of FiguresChapter One: Reading PoetryChapter Two: Time and SpaceChapter Three: IntertextualityChapter Four: AbsenceChapter Five: PerformanceChapter Six: MetaphorChapter Seven: Poetry in the MindReferences

What People are Saying About This

Professor Mark Turner

Great poetry places on-stage the powers and limits of human thought. Time and space, intertextuality, presence and absence, performance, metaphor: Gavins investigates masterfully what the poetry of our day teaches us about the human mind.

Editorial Reviews

Great poetry places on-stage the powers and limits of human thought. Time and space, intertextuality, presence and absence, performance, metaphor: Gavins investigates masterfully what the poetry of our day teaches us about the human mind.

Professor Mark Turner