Description

Six dimensions of imaginative apprehension: Categorization -- Image schemas -- Conceptual metaphors and image metaphors -- Conceptual integration -- Metonymies -- Narrative structure -- Three of Elizabeth Bishop's licensing stories: Looking; Exploration; Seascape -- The splendid particularity of an individual poem: Cognitive poetics and genetic criticism -- Eight cognitive readings in Elizabeth Bishop: Books of travel under a powerful reading-glass ("Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance"; metonymy) -- Conceptual correspondences between the bight and the desk ("The Bight"; conceptual integration) -- Elizabeth Bishop's idea of "knowledge" ("At the Fishhouses"; VERTICALITY image schema) -- Pointing out Santos ("Arrival at Santos"; POINTING-OUT idealized cognitive model) -- Mapping travel and its images ("Questions of Travel"; image metaphor) -- Understanding as sandpiper's seeing ("Sandpiper"; SEEING conceptual schema) -- The simple path of a life's journey and its story ("The Moose"; inheritance hierarchy based on the PATH image schema) -- Patterning the walk of the mind ("The End of March"; cultural model of the walk poem) -- Portrait of a mind reading -- Appendices: Elizabeth Bishop: Chronology -- The MIND-AS-BODY system -- The THINKER IS A MOVER AND MANIPULATOR metaphor. ISBN 9783110186109