Cognitive stylistics of humorous texts

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Conceptual integration in Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies 1
6. The body in the word 23
7. The Figure in the Carpet 49
8. Miltonic texture and the feeling of reading 73
9. A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction 95
10. Between the lines 123
11. “Split selves” in fiction and in medical “life stories” 153
12. Metaphor in Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” 183
13. Cognitive constraints on verbal creativity 211
14. Cognitive stylistics of humorous texts 231
15. A cognitive stylistic approach to characterisation 251
16. Aspects of Cognitive Poetics 279
17. Afterword 319
18. Name Index 325
19. Subject Index 329