Literature and Cognition

Jerry R. Hobbs (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

195 Seiten

1990
Centre for the Study of Language & Information (Verlag)
9780937073537 (ISBN)

Infos

Cognitive science, with its guiding metaphor of the mind as a computer, has made substantial progress towards an understanding of how people comprehend and produce discourse. The essays in this book apply these insights to problems in the interpretation of literature. The first two chapters present the outline of a cognitive theory of discourse and use it to shed light on some classic issues in literary theory, including the roles of the author's intention and the reader's brief systems in the meaning of a literary work. The next three chapters are more technical investigations of discourse interpretation, metaphor, and discourse coherence. The framework developed is then used in the examination of two literary works, a sonnet by Milton and the novella Sylvie by Gérard de Nerval.

Inhalt

Introduction; 1. Against confusion; 2. Imagining, fiction, and narrative; 3. A theory of discourse interpretation; 4. Interpreting metaphors; 5. The coherence and structure of discourse; 6. 'Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son': a coherence analysis; 7. Structuring in Nerval's Sylvie; Afterword; Bibliography.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.1990
• Reihe/Serie: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes ; 21
• Verlagsort: Stanford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 158 x 237 mm
• Gewicht: 502 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre
• Schlagworte: Center for the Study of Language & Information - Lecture Notes S.; 21
• ISBN-13: 9780937073537 / 9780937073537
• Zustand: Neuware