Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and cognition in adolescent literature
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1. Verfasser: Trites, Roberta Seelinger (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014
Schriftenreihe:Children's literature, culture, and cognition v. 2
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Literary Conceptualizations of Growth; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Introduction; Cognitive linguistics; Brain science; Growth; Acknowledgements; Growth, cognitive linguistics, and embodied metaphors; Background and review of the literature; Cognitive linguistics and embodied metaphors; Embodied metaphors of growth in literary criticism; Fiction as an example: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Conclusion; Sequences, scripts, and stereotypical knowledge; Sequences, scripts, and stereotypical knowledge
Scripts and stereotypical knowledge in American Born ChineseMemory, perception, emotion and Margaret Mahy's Memory; Causality, scripts, and Thirteen Reasons Why; Conclusion; Blending and cultural narratives; Blending; Blending in a cool moonlight; Cultural narratives as cognitive blends; Cultural narratives and embodied metaphors in Shusterman's Unwind; Primary and complex metaphors, blending, and cultural narratives in Njunjul the Sun; Conclusion; A case study; Maturity and causality; The Pixar maturity formula; Up and Being-towards-death; Toy Story 3, separation anxiety, and control
ConclusionEpistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of experientialism; Embodied reason in David Almond's novels; The cognitive unconscious and metaphorical thought; The ontology and epistemology of racial construction; Categorization, and epistemology: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; The ontology of racism: 47; Conclusion; The hegemony of growth in adolescent literature; Growth: The archaeology of a metaphor; Growth and its historical conceptualizations; The implications of growth metaphors; A historiography of growth metaphors
Growth and the historiography of literature for youthAfterword; References; Primary Sources (Books); Primary Sources (Films); Secondary Sources; Index
Literary Conceptualizations of Growth explores those processes through which maturation is represented in adolescent literature by examining how concepts of growth manifest themselves in adolescent literature and by interrogating how the concept of growth structures scholars' ability to think about adolescence. Cognitive literary theory provides the theoretical framework, as do the related fields of cognitive linguistics and experiential philosophy; historical constructions of the concept of growth are also examined within the context of the history of ideas. Cross-cultural literature f
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