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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Cognitive poetics."”.
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A cognitive poetics of the threat scene: How movies scare us
… and thriller films in light of contemporary cognitive psychology and film theory in order to understand how they inspire fear, startle, and disgust in spectators. Films like Cat People, John Carpenter's Halloween, and Ridley Scott's Alien contain what I term threat scenes, moments where …
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Text world theory : A critical exposition and development in relation to absurd prose fiction.
… psychological, critical theoretical and cognitive scientific models, principally the cognitive discourse grammar originally developed by Paul Werth. The thesis delineates the critical and philosophical inheritance out of which Text World Theory evolved, in order to evaluate and engage …
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"Unspoken sermons": Christian preaching in British fiction, 1979-2004
… based mainly on rhetorical narratology and cognitive poetics, to examine the current status of fictional sermons. Five case studies follow. The first discusses issues of authority and inspiration in texts, preachers and preaching. The second considers how novelists communicate religious …
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In-Group, Out-Group, or All of the Above: The Advantages of Young Adult Literature for Empathic and Cognitive Engagement with Minority Protagonists
Using the lens of cognitive poetics, this theoretical thesis examines how a majority or mainstream culture adolescent reader would use empathy with young adult novels featuring minority protagonists – that is, protagonists who are disabled, who are LGBT+, or who are of a minority race or ethnicity. …
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Motion in Poetry: A Psychophysical, Action-Based Approach to the Composition and Analysis of Metrical Dramatic Verse
… and with reference to contemporary theories of cognitive poetics. The rhythms of metrical verse are thereby understood and experienced as purposeful movements of the human body which are, in turn, understood and experienced as the psychophysical sensations of dramatic action. This approach, …
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A cognitive poetic exploration of Elena Poniatowska's La noche de Tlatelolco.
… La noche de Tlateloco is based on a cognitive poetic approach to explore readers' perceptions of the work. It affirms both the historical veracity and literary ingenuity of the text by highlighting literary elements and asserting that they strengthen rather than weaken readers' …
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La dona en el mirall : La poètica del cos: el feminisme de Maria-Mercè Marçal sota una perspectiva cognitiva. "La germana, l'estrangera"
Estudi d'alguns poemes representatius del poemari "La germana, l'estrangera" de Maria-Mercè Marçal sota la perspectiva de la poètica cognitiva.
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Frontiers of Consciousness: Tennyson, Hardy, Hopkins, Eliot
… represents the development of this figure into a poetics of the ‘glimpse’, a poetry that repeatedly approaches the horizon of what might be seen or heard. Chapter 3 is concerned with Hardy’s figuring of the ‘hereto’ of verse as a haunted region, his ghostly figures and spectral presences becoming …