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Literature and Cognition: Volume 21 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Hobbs, Jerry R.

 
9780937073537: Literature and Cognition: Volume 21 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0937073539 ISBN 13: 9780937073537
Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1990

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0937073539
ISBN 13 
9780937073537
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
195