Chapter 6. Constructing a text world for The Handmaid’s Tale

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
7. Part 1. Narrative fiction
8. Chapter 2. War, worlds and Cognitive Grammar 19
9. Chapter 3. Construal and comics 35
10. Chapter 4. Attentional windowing in David Foster Wallace’s ‘The Soul Is Not a Smithy’ 53
11. Chapter 5. Resonant metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go 69
12. Chapter 6. Constructing a text world for The Handmaid’s Tale 83
13. Chapter 7. Point of view in translation 101
14. Part 2. Studies of poetry
15. Chapter 8. Profiling the flight of ‘The Windhover’ 119
16. Chapter 9. Foregrounding the foregrounded 133
17. Chapter 10. Conceptual proximity and the experience of war in Siegfried Sassoon’s ‘A Working Party’ 145
18. Chapter 11. Most and now 161
19. Chapter 12. Fictive motion in Wordsworthian nature 177
20. Chapter 13. The cognitive poetics of if 195
21. Chapter 14. Representing the represented 213
22. Afterword 231
23. References 237
24. Index 253