Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading

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Professor Margaret H. Freeman (Co-Director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, USA) Professor or Dr. Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück University, Germany)

Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art

A Cognitive Reading

Professor Margaret H. Freeman (Co-Director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, USA), Professor or Dr. Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück University, Germany), Professor Margaret H. Freeman (Co-Director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, USA) , Professor Peter Schneck

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
27 July 2023

Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Cognitivism, cognitive theory

Series: Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts

Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art is both an exciting work of literary criticism on a central figure in American literature as well as an invitation for students and researchers to engage with cognitive literary studies.

Emily Dickinson’s poetry can be challenging and difficult. It paradoxically gives readers a feeling of closeness and intimacy while being puzzling and obscure. Critical interpretations of Dickinson's poems tend to focus on what they mean rather than on what kind of experience they create. A cognitive approach to literary criticism, based on recent cognitive research, helps readers experience and understand the hows and whys of what a poem is saying and doing. These include cognitive linguistic analysis, versification, prosody, cognitive metaphor, schema, blending, and iconicity, all of which explain the sensory, motor, and emotive processes that motivate Dickinson’s conceptualizations.

By experiencing Dickinson’s poetry from a cognitive perspective, readers are able to better understand why we feel so close to the poet and why her poetry endures. Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading is an important contribution to the study of a major American poet as well as to the vibrant field of cognitive literary studies.

By: Professor Margaret H. Freeman (Co-Director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts USA)
Series edited by: Professor or Dr. Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück University Germany), Professor Margaret H. Freeman (Co-Director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, USA), Professor Peter Schneck
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781501398193
ISBN 10: 1501398199
Series: Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 27 July 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Demure as Dynamite: Dickinson and Cognition 2. Everything Counts: Reading the Manuscripts 3. The Manuscript Markings 4. Measuring Time in Meter and Rhythm 5. Affective Prosody 6. The Life of Words 7. Bringing a Poem to Life 8. Intimate Discourse 9. Grounded-Self Spaces 10. The Presence of Self 11. The Way We Map 12. Intentional Mapping 13. Conceiving a Universe 14. A Transformative Poetics 15. Dickinsonian Cognition Appendix References Index of First Lines Subject Index

Margaret H. Freeman is Co-Director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, MA, USA. Professor Freeman's past publications include The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition (2020).

Reviews for Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading

Freeman's book is not just an engagingly learned re-introduction to Emily Dickinson but a provocation to consider how contemporary scholarship on embodied cognition may serve as a means of building a more complete understanding of Dickinson's poetic art. * Ryan Cull, Associate Professor of English, New Mexico State University, USA * Drawing on the insights of cognitive science, Margaret Freeman demonstrates that understanding a poem, even before any attempt at interpretation, is to cognitively experience it, allowing it to reveal itself by what it is saying and doing. Her subtle and meticulous analyses illustrate how those animate organisms work, and they are thus true eye-openers as well as an enormous gain for all lovers of Dickinson's poems, academics and general readers alike. * Gudrun Grabher, Professor Emerita of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria *