The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature
| University of Neuchâtel
How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a “poetics of time”? This book embarks on this endeavor initiated by the assumption that verbal creativity can shed some new light on our understanding of time, challenging everyday linguistic patterns and manipulating mental representations in unforeseen ways. Drawing on empirical evidence from Modern Greek poetry, the book offers a unified account of time conceptualization along a continuum of various degrees of non-conventionality. It also shows, unlike what has been traditionally assumed in the literature, that creativity in the expression of time is not limited to metaphor but extends to other figurative tropes that are perhaps specific to poetry. Poetry thus transpires as an ideal testing frame for exploring temporal cognition and meaning construction alike.
[Figurative Thought and Language, 3] 2018. xviii, 206 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of diagrams | pp. xi–xii
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List of figures | pp. xiii–xiv
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List of tables | pp. xv–xvi
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Acknowledgements | pp. xvii–xviii
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Chapter 1. Time, cognition, and poetics | pp. 1–24
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Chapter 2. The conceptual structure of time in MG | pp. 25–74
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Chapter 3. Creative metaphors of time | pp. 75–126
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Chapter 4. Highly creative metaphors of time | pp. 127–154
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Chapter 5. Non-metaphorical figurative expressions of time | pp. 155–174
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Chapter 6. Time from metaphor and beyond? | pp. 175–186
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References | pp. 187–202
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Index | pp. 203–206
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Subjects & Metadata
Literature & Literary Studies
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General