Search for dissertations about: "cognitive poetics"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words cognitive poetics.

2. 1. Haikai Poetics : Buson, Kitō and the Interpretation of Renku Poetry

   Author : Herbert Jonsson; Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; Martin Svensson Ekström; Cheryl Crowley; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Yosa Buson; Matsuo Bashō; Takai Kitō; haiku; haikai; sabi; tsukeai; renku; poetics; aesthetics; verse-linking; theories of creativity; eighteenth-century Japan; cognitive poetics; Japanology; Japanologi;

   Abstract : The dissertation is a study of the poetics of haikai in eighteenth-century Japan. It is more specifically concerned with the works of Yosa Buson and some of his followers. Rather than being a study of certain poems, it is an investigation of theories of aesthetics and composition, and of criticism. READ MORE

4. 2. Dylan Thomas's Poetics of Embodiment

   Author : Anne Päivärinta; Finland University of Tampere; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; cognitive poetics; embodiment; stylistics; Modernism; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : The dissertation explores the structure and functions of embodied metaphors in Dylan Thomas’s (1914–1953) works. It aims to show that embodiment defines Thomas’s writing both stylistically and thematically, and that Thomas’s body metaphors are essentially founded on the biblical myths of creation and the Fall. READ MORE

5. 3. Spatial Structures in Conrad’s Universe : The Tension between Opening and Closing as a Literary Device

   Author : Claes Lindskog; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cognitive Poetics; Nihilism; Romanticism; Spatial Structures; Joseph Conrad;

   Abstract : Many attempts have been made to catch the essence of Joseph Conrad’s work by examining the contents of his ideas. This thesis argues instead that the important factor is the preferred spatial structures of his world-views and the interplay between them. READ MORE