1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782791403321

Autore

Hayes Elizabeth R (Elizabeth Russell), <1952->

Titolo

The pragmatics of perception and cognition in MT Jeremiah 1:1-6:30 [[electronic resource] ] : a cognitive linguistics approach / / Elizabeth R. Hayes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2008

ISBN

1-283-39727-7

9786613397270

3-11-021122-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, , 0934-2575 ; ; Bd. 380

Classificazione

BC 6785

Disciplina

224/.2066

Soggetti

Cognitive grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-252) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Table of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Clause Tag Conventions -- Mental Spaces Conventions (MSC) -- 1. Text Dynamics: An Integrative Approach -- 2. The Sentence and Beyond: Introduction to the Text Dynamics Approach -- 3. Traditional and Cognitive Approaches to BH Grammar -- 4. Cognitive Structuring in Jeremiah 1.1 6.30 -- 5. Cognitive Structuring in Jeremiah 2.1 3.35 -- 6. Cognitive Structuring in Jeremiah 4.1 6.30 -- 7. Conclusions -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Recent advances in cognitive linguistics provide new avenues for reading and interpreting Biblical Hebrew prophetic text. This volume utilises a multi-layered cognitive linguistics approach to explore Jeremiah 1:1-6:30, incorporating insights from cognitive grammar, cognitive science and conceptual blending theory. While the modern reader is separated from the originators of these texts by time, space and culture, this analysis rests on the theory that both the originators and the modern reader share common features of embodied experience. This opens the way for utilising cognitive models, conceptual metaphor and mental spaces theory when reading and interpreting ancient texts.This volume provides an introduction to cognitive theory and method. Initially, short examples from Jeremiah 1:



1-6:30 are used to introduce the theory and method. This is followed by a detailed comparison of traditional and cognitive approaches to Biblical Hebrew grammar. These insights are then applied to further examples taken from Jeremiah 1:1-6:30 in order to test and refine the approach. These findings show that Jeremiah 1:1-1:3 establishes perspective for the text as a whole and that subsequent shifts in perspective may be tracked using aspects of mental spaces theory. Much of the textual content yields to concepts derived from conceptual metaphor studies and from conceptual blending theory, which are introduced and explained using examples taken from Jeremiah 1:1-6:30. The entire analysis demonstrates some of the strengths and weaknesses of using recent cognitive theories and methods for analysing and interpreting ancient texts. While such theories and methods do not obviate the need for traditional interpretive methods, they do provide a more nuanced understanding of the ancient text.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787539103321

Autore

Stratton Matthew

Titolo

The politics of irony in American modernism [[electronic resource] /] / Matthew Stratton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-8232-5547-6

0-8232-6108-5

0-8232-5548-4

0-8232-5546-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Classificazione

LIT004020POL000000

Disciplina

810.9/18

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Irony in literature

Satire - History and criticism

Politics in literature

Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Politics and culture - United States - History - 20th century

Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Irony and How It Got That Way -- Chapter 1: The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s -- Chapter 2: Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s -- Chapter 3: The Focus of Satire: Irony and Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos Page -- Chapter 4: Visible Decisions : Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison -- Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book shows how American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century saw "irony'" emerge as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices. Against conventional associations of irony with political withdrawal, Stratton shows how the term circulated widely in literary and popular culture to describe politically engaged forms of writing. It is a critical commonplace to acknowledge the difficulty of defining irony before stipulating a particular definition as a stable point of departure for literary, cultural, and political analysis. This book, by contrast, is the first to derive definitions of "irony" inductively, showing how writers employed it as a keyword both before and in opposition to the institutionalization of New Criticism. It focuses on writers who not only composed ironic texts but talked about irony and satire to situate their work politically: Randolph Bourne, Benjamin De Casseres, Ellen Glasgow, John Dos Passos, Ralph Ellison, and many others"--