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  • Thinking Through Poems

    Composition, Emotion and Decision-Making in Romantic-Era Women’s Novels

    Series series Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts
    A new cognitive approach to the representation of composition in literature that examines five women novelists of the late 18th century and how they use imaginative poetic practices to attain emotional, practical and political agency.During a backlash towards feminism in British politics at the turn of the 19th century, popular women's novels became saturated with heroines in dangerous situations ... Read more

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  • Rhythm in Modern Poetry

    An Essay in Cognitive Versification Studies

    Series series Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts
    A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse.Investigating a previously neglected area of study, Rhythm in Modern Poetry establishes a foundation for cognitive versification studies with a focus on the modernist free verse. Following in the tradition of cognitive poetics by Reuven Tsur, Richard Cureton and Derek Attridge, every chapter ... Read more

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  • Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art

    A Cognitive Reading

    Series series Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts
    Winner of the Literary Encyclopedia 2024 Book Prize, in the category of literatures originally written in English.Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art is both an exciting work of literary criticism on a central figure in American literature as well as an invitation for students and researchers to engage with cognitive literary studies.Emily Dickinson's poetry can be challenging and difficult. It ... Read more

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    From the National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer: "These essays . . . have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight" ( The New Republic).Before winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1962, Walker Percy was an established scholar of science, philosophy, and language. Presented here are his strongest essays in those subjects, offering what he called a "theory of man ... Read more

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    by Sigmund Freud ...
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  • Must We Mean What We Say?

    A Book of Essays

    Reissued with an additional preface to sit alongside the volume on Stanley Cavell in Contemporary Philosophy in Focus this famous collection of essays covers a remarkably wide range of philosophical issues (there are essays on Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of language) and extends beyond philosophy into discussions of music and drama. ... Read more

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    A Book of Essays

    Series series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, ... Read more

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  • Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature

    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
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