"How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?": Cognitive Poetics and William Butler Yeats's Poetry
Description:
Cognitive poetics, the recently developed field of literary theory which utilizes principles from cognitive science and cognitive linguistics to examine literature, is applied in this study to an exploration of the poetry of William Butler Yeats. The theoretical foundation for this approach is embodiment theory, the concept from cognitive linguistics that language is an embodied phenomenon and that meaning and meaning construction are bodily processes grounded in our sensorimotor experiences. A…
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Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Pagel, Amber Noelle