Metaphors, Narrative Frames, and Cognitive Distance in Charles Chesnutt’s “Dave’s Neckliss”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Blending and the Study of Narrative: An Introduction 1
5. Narrative Time, Sequence, and Memory: A Blending Analysis 31
6. Attention, Blending, and Suspense in Classic and Experimental Film 57
7. Constructing Literary Character and Perspective: An Approach from Psychology and Blending Theory 85
8. Fleshing Out the Blend: The Representation of Counterfactuals in Alternate History in Print, Film, and Television Narratives 121
9. Blending in a baciyelmo: Don Quixote’s Genre Blending and the Invention of the Novel 147
10. The Conceptual Integration Network of Metalepsis 173
11. The Conceptual Integration of Intermediality: Literary and Cinematic Camera-Eye Narratives 199
12. Metaphors, Narrative Frames, and Cognitive Distance in Charles Chesnutt’s “Dave’s Neckliss” 229
13. Conceptual Blending in The Waves: “A Mind Thinking” 253
14. Blending and Jazz Narratives: Conceptual Integration of Music and Verbal Meaning in Eudora Welty’s “Powerhouse” 279
15. “Allways our rush returning renewed”: Time, Narrative, and Conceptual Blending in Danielewski’s Only Revolutions 295
16. The Conceptual Blending of Time and Space: Milan Kundera’s Slowness 325
17. The Narrative of Nothing: The Mathematical Blends of Narrator and Hero in Shakespeare’s Henry V 343