Metaphor making meaning: Dickinson's conceptual universe

Freeman, Margaret H.

doi:10.1016/0378-2166(95)00006-e

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“…Sundry and shifting attentional grounds? Just as Dickinson rejected the construal of life as a journey, preferring life as a voyage (Freeman 1995), might she have wanted her poems to assume a lesslinear form, with multiple options for venturing not only forward (as on a journey with a known goal) but also pausing, and returning, and not necessarily hurrying forward, as in a voyage? The connotative and denotative senses of dash also bear re¯ection: as a mark upon the page, a dash is`a hasty pen-stroke' (should not one add`key stroke'?…”

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confidence: 98%

The edges of words

2001

Semi

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Where does a word start and where does it end, what are its boundaries, its limits, where and what are its edges?One might most readily Ð at the outset Ð construe this question as relating to the meaning of words. From this viewpoint, the`edges' of words may refer to points at which the meaning of a term shades o or falls o' (those places at which we would write, utter, or use a word tentatively, with hesitation, unsure of the soundness or correctness with which we do so) or, especially, as concerning the connotations of words. And, indeed, even a brief consideration indicates that there are many points of connection between the notion of connotations and the`edges' of words Ð many apt conjoinings are possible. For instance, we may see connotation as relating to those aspects or qualities that`give the edge' to a particular word, giving the word priority or preference over another word which, although it may be quite close in meaning, yet subtly fails or falls short relative to the preferred word. Connotations may also be seen as at`the edge' of words because they are most likely to be in contact with, or near, other words and other ideas and notions; here connotations are those relations, attributes, and intimations which, through nearness in time, place, or other modes of association, come to adhere to a word. This sense of the connotative meaning of words as growing outward through associations is most acutely and one might say accumulatively connoted by Roland Barthes.

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Section: Punctuation 4 ð Extending To Ellipses and Dashesmentioning

confidence: 98%

The edges of words

2001

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“…In the nineties, some studies about poetics bridged issues of cognitive science with the approaches of earlier literary formalism and structuralism (Tsur, 1992a;Freeman, 1995;Miall, 1989Miall, , 1990Miall, , 1995 or with aesthetic theories (Esrock, 1994;Scarry, 1999). Other fields of research have applied cognitive theories to rhetoric and composition studies (Oakley, 1998;Herman, 1999) and to narrative studies (Fludernik, 1993(Fludernik, , 2006Turner, 1996;Herman, 1999).…”

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Neurohermeneutics A Transdisciplinary Approach to Literature

Gambino

Pulvirenti

2019

Gestalt Theory

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The study of literature and arts in general has been recently enriched by the changes in the heuristic paradigms regarding the very essence of the cognitive processes implied by the artistic experience. In the frame of the epistemological changes occurred in the past decades, since the so-called "neuro-turn" and the definition of an "epistemology based on the brain" (see Edelman, 2007), the linkage of humanities, cognitive studies and neuroscience has put at stake the need of inquiring about arts and literature in a transdisciplinary perspective, in order to get new insights into how our mindbrain fulfils the mysterious process of imagining a fictional world, constructing new meanings out of this experience, and to develop a methodology to newly interpret arts and the literary text.In this perspective, the main focus of literature is human nature and the involved relationship among the human mind, the cognitive processes of the brain and the world. As Turner (1996) claimed years ago, literary criticism needs to take into account new results in the field of cognitive science and neurosciences, since only through the intertwining of art and cognitive neuroscientific research it will be possible to acquire innovative perspectives in the study of the human mind and arts. Narration -particularly literary narration -is the oldest and one of the most sophisticated products of the human mind; it therefore mirrors many of its more relevant processes. The brain processes that normally underlie the interaction of the human being with the world are reflected forcefully and in condensed manner especially in art and literature. Cognitive acts make use of narrative and creative processes, as reaffirmed in the past decades by several scholars, among them by Gibbs (1994), overcoming the classical distinction between usual thought, referred to action in the world, and the narrative literary one, referred to counterfactual worlds (Turner, 1996). Therefore, it seems inadequate to deal with a specific aesthetic phenomenon without considering the complexity in which it is rooted, that is to say the connection between the brain and its activity, and what such activity has produced and is nourished by -body, environment, GESTALT THEORY,

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“…Moreover, such usage is apt to be realized by readers when they read literary discourses. Freeman (1995) showed to construct the power of metaphor in Dickinson's poems. Freeman demonstrated how the poet creates her own metaphors to express meanings.…”

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A Relevance-Theoretic Study of Poetic Metaphor

Yang¹,

Liu²

2017

UCFL

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Poetic metaphors are one kind of conceptual metaphors. The previous studies showed that much attention has been paid to the conceptual metaphors in poems, but less in novels. As a result, the properties of conceptual metaphors are much limited by the root metaphors and poems. Moreover, the concept of the poetic metaphors is indefinite and regarded as the conceptual metaphors in poems, which neglects the varieties of the poetic metaphors and weakens their functions. Therefore, this study explores how the readers apply the poetic metaphors to reach the optimal relevance in the process of reading short stories under the framework of the Relevance Theory (RT), aiming to construct an interpreting model of novels from the cognitive-pragmatic perspective and implement the model in literary analysis.

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Metaphor making meaning: Dickinson's conceptual universe

Cited by 47 publications

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The edges of words

The edges of words

Neurohermeneutics A Transdisciplinary Approach to Literature

A Relevance-Theoretic Study of Poetic Metaphor

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