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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807603503321

Autore

Stockwell Peter

Titolo

Texture : a cognitive aesthetics of reading / / Peter Stockwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-7486-5151-9

0-7486-3120-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

418.4019

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Cognitive grammar

Criticism - 21st century

Literature - History and criticism

Poetics - Psychological aspects

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 ([193]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Text, Textuality and Texture; 2 Resonance and Intensity; 3 Sensation and Empathy; 4 Voice and Mind; 5 Identification and Resistance; 6 Texture and Meaning; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Texture represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. This book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved in recent years. Taking key familiar concepts such as characterisation, tone, empathy, and identification, the book aims to describe the natural experience of literary reading in a thorough and principled way. Accessibly and informatively written, Texture draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art.