By linking Frye’s classic studies to exciting recent approaches in the humanities and the cognitive revolution of the past few decades, Body of Vision casts Frye’s achievements in a fascinating new light.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: Landscapes and Prospects
Chapter 1. Cognition, Meaning and Culture
“Systems That Won’t Quite Do”: Schematic Structure in Literary Myth, Metaphor, and Models
Chapter 2. Cognition, Culture and Literature
Spatial and Spiritual Orders: Metaphoric Coherence in Dante’s and Frye’s Cosmologies
Chapter 3. Cognition, Culture and Society
Family, City, and Body Politic: Metaphor and Framing in Social Thought
Chapter 4. Cognition, Culture and History
Pastorals With Power: Universal Nature and the Sociology of Genre
Conclusion
Minds Transfigured Together: Metaphor, Myth, and Culture in Mind
Works Cited
Notes
