Metaphor and figure-ground relationship: comparisons from poetry, music, and the visual arts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Cognitive poetics. A critical introduction 1
4. Part I: Story
5. Text worlds 33
6. Cognitive approaches to narrative analysis 79
7. Reflections on a cognitive stylistic approach to characterisation 125
8. Part II: Figure
9. Minding: feeling, form, and meaning in the creation of poetic iconicity 169
10. Metaphor and figure-ground relationship: comparisons from poetry, music, and the visual arts 237
11. Part III: Stance
12. Deconstructing verbal humour with Construction Grammar 289
13. Judging distances: mental spaces, distance, and viewpoint in literary discourse 319
14. Does an “ironic situation” favor an ironic interpretation? 383
15. Part IV: Critique
16. How cognitive is cognitive poetics? The interaction between symbolic and embodied cognition 423
17. Epilogue. How (not) to advance toward the narrative mind 455
18. Backmatter 533