Title: Cognitive poetics and literary criticism: types of resolution in the Condition-of-England novel
Abstract: A strong impetus has been given to cognitive poetics by recent advances in conceptual integration or blending theory. This theory provides insights into the nature of text processing, and accounts for human thinking and reasoning in terms of complex cross-domain projection of information. In particular, it distinguishes between four main types of integration networks, existing on a continuum from simplex via mirror and single-scope to double-scope networks. The present article suggests that these insights into the way our minds work also help us understand how nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists thought about issues of social class. It shows that the four types of conceptual integration networks correspond to the four types of endings found in condition-of-England novels. The focus is therefore on the endings of these novels, and it is argued that simplex and mirror resolutions are rather uncommon (one example is given of each). Single-scope resolutions are more common in the nineteenth-century condition-of-England novel, and double-scope resolutions in the twentieth-century novel.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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