UID:
almahu_9948330897502882
Format:
1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:
9780190080440 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Cognition and poetics
Content:
Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures. Its relation to the worlds of human experience has perplexed writers and readers for centuries, as has the question of evaluation and judgment: what makes a poem 'work' and endure. The Poem as Icon focuses on the art of poetry to explore its nature and function: not interpretation but experience; not what poetry means but what it does. Using both historic and contemporary approaches of embodied cognition from various disciplines, Margaret Freeman argues that a poem's success lies in its ability to become an icon of the felt 'being' of reality. Freeman explains how the features of semblance, metaphor, schema, and affect work to make a poem an icon, with detailed examples from various poets.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190080419
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
