Ebook: A prehistory of cognitive poetics : neoclassicism and the novel
Author: Kukkonen Karin
- Tags: Fiction, 18th century, History and criticism, Neoclassicism (Literature), Poetics, Cognition in literature, Literature and society, Europe, History, 18th century, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English Irish Scottish Welsh, Fiction, Literature and society, Europe
- Series: Cognition and poetics
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Oxford
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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"Bringing neoclassicism back into today's critical debates, this study considers the cognitive underpinnings of the rules of poetic justice, the unities and decorum, underlines their relevance for today's cognitive poetics and traces their influence in the emerging narrative form of the eighteenth-century novel"--
Abstract: "Bringing neoclassicism back into today's critical debates, this study considers the cognitive underpinnings of the rules of poetic justice, the unities and decorum, underlines their relevance for today's cognitive poetics and traces their influence in the emerging narrative form of the eighteenth-century novel"