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Publication details [#5400]

Gross, Sabine. 1997. Cognitive readings; or, The disappearance of literature in the mind (Review of 'Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science', by Mark Turner). Poetics Today 18 : 271–297.

Publication type

Review/summary

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive approach to literary studies | cognitive poetics | literary studies | review of Turner (1991)

Abstract

While a heavy emphasis on rhetorical analysis reflects Gross's lack of sympathy with the challenges of Turner's theoretical task, the review does provide valuable renderings of both the content and context of a cognitive approach to literary studies. (Margaret Freeman)