Literature and Cognition
Author:   Jerry R. Hobbs
Publisher:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Volume:   21
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9780937073537


Pages:   195
Publication Date:   30 September 1990
Format:   Hardback
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Literature and Cognition


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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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Author:   Jerry R. Hobbs
Publisher:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Imprint:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Volume:   21
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.502kg
ISBN:  

9780937073537


ISBN 10:   0937073539
Pages:   195
Publication Date:   30 September 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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.

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