Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Poetics of Space and Time in Contemporary Literature

Cristina Mirela Nicolaescu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-6053-2 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive study of how Anglophone fiction reconceptualizes fundamental categories of human experience is presented in this work. It explores how readers navigate the dynamic interplay between temporality and spatiality within narratives, and how metaphorical and metonymic processes transform these concepts, thereby bridging the disciplines of cognitive linguistics, cognitive poetics, literary theory, and narratology.The study demonstrates that location and time are never mere backdrops; rather, they are actively constructed through figurative language and narrative structure.This work, combining theoretical rigor with critical interpretation, offers a novel methodological framework for understanding how literary and linguistic figurations integrate temporal and spatial dimensions into narrative structures. It argues that literature occupies a distinctive position in revealing both the convergences and divergences between lived experience and cultural imagination, fostering a poetics that is simultaneously analytically rigorous and deeply human.Scholars and advanced students of literary studies, cognitive poetics, linguistics, and comparative literature, as well as anyone interested in the intersections of language, place, time, and narrative possibilities in modern culture, will find this book essential reading.

Cristina Mirela Nicolaescu is a Professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Yozgat Bozok University (Türkiye). She specializes in General Linguistics, Semiotics, Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Linguistics. With a focus on literature, linguistics, and cultural studies, her research has been presented at many international conferences and symposia, and several findings have been published in academic journals. She is the author of works such as English-Turkish Dictionary of Idiomatic Expressions and Other Phrases for Literary Translations (2021), Female Characters in Regency and Vıctorian Literature (2021), Technologies of Perspective on Contemporary Literary Texts (2022), The Figure of the 19th Century Convict in English and Australian Literature (2023), and Iconicity and Arbitrariness of Linguistic Expressions in Speech Acts (2025), showing her ongoing impact and commitment to promoting the research of literature, language, and education. Professor Nicolaescu currently teaches English Literature and Linguistics at Yozgat Bozok University.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-6053-3 / 1036460533
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-6053-2 / 9781036460532
Zustand	Neuware