Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats’s Poetry applies an innovative cognitive linguistic approach to the poetry of John Keats, the first of its kind to employ a cognitive-based framework to explore the expression and articulation of emotion in his work.
Brannon adopts an embodied perspective to emotion, rooted in cognitive linguistics, cognitive grammar, and cognitive poetics but also works from figurative language and stylistics, in examining a selection of Keats’s poems. This approach allows for a close interrogation of the texts themselves but also the languages that compose them, comprising lexical and grammatical elements, which, when taken together, bring out the emotional saliency of Keatsian poetry. While revealing fresh insights into the work of John Keats, the book also sheds further light on the importance of cognitive approaches to poetic and grammatical analyses and how both language and the body can serve as forms of communication through which metaphors can be expressed and contextualized.
This volume will appeal to students and scholars interested in cognitive linguistics, figurative language, emotion studies, cognitive science, and Anglophone poetry.
Author(s): Katrina Brannon
Series: Routledge Research in Cognitive Humanities
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 209
City: New York
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Foundational Framework: Presentation
1.2 The Principal Angles of a Cognitive Approach to Keatsian Poetry
1.3 Keats the Poet
1.4 Structural Logic of the Book
1.5 Outline and Argumentative Logic
Notes
Chapter 2 Cognitive Approaches to Poetry
2.1 Methodological Orientation: Perspectives
2.2 Cognitive Grammar
2.3 Poetic Grammar, Cognitive Poetics
2.4 Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy
2.5 Poetic Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy
2.6 Conceptual Metaphor and Emotion
2.7 Force-Dynamics and Causality
2.8 Embodied Emotion
2.9 Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 3 Aspect and Conceptual Metaphor: Poetic Expression and Emotion
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Figurative Foundations in Keatsian Poetry
3.3 Aspect in Cognitive Grammar
3.4 Emotion Is a Living Organism
3.5 “Isabella”: The Stages of Life
3.6 “Isabella”: The Basil Pot
3.7 “Lamia”: Emotional Emplacement
3.8 Conclusion
Note
Chapter 4 Emotional Force-Dynamics: Causes Are Forces and Modality
4.1 Force-Dynamics: An Introduction
4.2 Force-Dynamics in Language
4.3 Established Schematic Roles within (Emotional) Force-Dynamics
4.4 Metaphorical Extension and Force-Dynamics: The Event Structure Metaphor and Lakoff’s Invariance Hypothesis
4.5 Grammatical Representation of Force-Dynamics
4.6 Talmy’s “Greater Modal System”: Semantic and Syntactic Closeness, Metaphoricity, and Emotional Salience
4.7 Force-Dynamics in Perception and Emotion Verbs
4.8 Final Observations
Notes
Chapter 5 Grammar and Emotion: The Metaphorical Role of Prepositions
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Cognitive Foundations of Prepositions
5.3 Static Prepositions
5.4 Spatial Path Prepositions
5.5 Force-Dynamic Path Prepositions
5.6 Unclassified Prepositional Cases
5.7 Prepositional Conclusions
Notes
Chapter 6 Emotional Time and Embodiment
6.1 Time and Embodiment: An Introduction
6.2 The Time Orientation Metaphor: Foundations
6.3 Grammar and Metaphorical Expression
6.4 The Time Orientation Metaphor: Temporally Focused Case Studies
6.5 Conclusions on Temporality
Notes
Chapter 7 Conceptual Metonymy and the Physiological Expression of Emotion
7.1 Conceptual Metonymy in the Expression of Emotion
7.2 Emotive and Expressive Choices
7.3 Metonymical Analysis
7.4 Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 8 Conclusion
8.1 The Evolution of the Research: Objectives, Context, Argumentation
8.2 Presentation of Results
8.3 Closing Remarks: Paving the Way for Further Reflection
Note
Bibliography
Index
