Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, List of contributors, 1 Contextualising cognitive poetics, 2 Surreal figures, 3 Prototypes in dynamic meaning construal, 4 Deixis and abstractions: adventures in space and time, 5 A cognitive grammar of ‘Hospital Barge’ by Wilfred Owen, 6 ‘Love stories’: cognitive scenarios in love poetry, 7 Possible worlds and mental spaces in Hemingway’s ‘A very short story’, 8 Conceptual metaphor and its expressions, 9 Literature as parable, 10 Too much blague? An exploration of the text worlds of Donald Barthelme’s Snow White, 11 Reading for pleasure: a cognitive poetic analysis of ‘twists in the tale’ and other plot reversals in narrative texts, 12 Writingandreading: the future of cognitive poetics, References, Index

About the Author

Joanna Gavins is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Gerard Steen is Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.