Michael Sinding

Body of Vision

Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Mind

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By linking Frye’s classic studies to exciting recent approaches in the humanities and the cognitive revolution of the past few decades, Body of Vision casts Frye’s achievements in a fascinating new light.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781442643918
• ISBN-10: 1442643919
• Artikelnr.: 36399332

Autorenporträt

Michael Sinding is Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Language and Communication at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: Landscapes and Prospects
Chapter 1. Cognition, Meaning and Culture
“Systems That Won’t Quite Do”: Schematic Structure in Literary Myth,
Metaphor, and Models
Chapter 2. Cognition, Culture and Literature
Spatial and Spiritual Orders: Metaphoric Coherence in Dante’s and Frye’s
Cosmologies
Chapter 3. Cognition, Culture and Society
Family, City, and Body Politic: Metaphor and Framing in Social Thought
Chapter 4. Cognition, Culture and History
Pastorals With Power: Universal Nature and the Sociology of Genre
Conclusion
Minds Transfigured Together: Metaphor, Myth, and Culture in Mind
Works Cited
Notes