Cognitive poetics is a line of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science , in particular cognitive psychology , to the interpretation of literary texts. It is associated with receptive aesthetics , as well as stylistics , the use of which in literary studies is the most popular in the works of scientists in continental Europe. Like The New Criticism , cognitive poetics is engaged in a thorough analysis of the text, but recognizes that context plays an important role in shaping the meaning of the text.
Cognitive poetics is both an appeal to ancient methods, such as rhetoric [1] , and the principles of modern cognitive linguistics.
The issues addressed by cognitive poetics include deixis , the text theory of the world (a sense of immersion in texts), schemes , scripts and their role in reading, attention , highlighting and the genre .
One of the main methods of analysis in cognitive poetics is a cognitive metaphor - an idea first used in the works of George Lakoff as a tool for studying texts. Instead of considering metaphors as decorative figures of speech , cognitive poetics explores how the conceptual foundations of such metaphors interact with the text as a whole.
Among the most famous researchers in the field of cognitive poetics are , who is credited with authorship of the term [2] , Ronald Langaker , and Peter Stockwell. Although Zur’s “exact and concrete” definition of the term “poetics” was associated with his theory of “poetry and perception,” it has become more widely applied to any “theory” or “system” of works (for example, Greek poiesis) of literature of any genre [1] .
See also
- Cognitive linguistics
- Critical theory
- Theory of literature
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 “Cognitive poetics is a relatively new discipline, although it makes explicit references to much older forms of analysis, such as classical rhetoric.” Stockwell (2002): p. eight.
- ↑ “Reuven Zur ... led a project on cognitive poetics from the early 1970s, well before the first publications on cognitive linguistics.” Gerard Steen and Joanna Gavins, “Contextualizing cognitive poetics”, in Gavins and Steen (2003): p. 3.
Literature
- Bachelard, Gaston (1960). La poétique de la rêverie . Paris: Presses Universitaires de France .
- Brône, Geert and Jeroen Vandaele (2009). Cognitive Poetics. Goals, Gains and Gaps . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
- Gavins, Joanna and Gerard Steen (2003). Cognitive Poetics in Practice . London: Routledge .
- Semino, Elena and Jonathan Culpeper (2002). Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis . Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins .
- Stockwell, Peter (2002). Cognitive Poetics : An Introduction . London: Routledge .
- Tsur, Reuven (2008). Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics , Second, expanded and updated edition. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press.