The literary mind / Mark Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Mark, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive science.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 187 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables or The Thousand and One Nights, for example, as exotic tales set in strange lands, with spectacular images, talking animals, and fantastic plots--wonderful entertainments, often insightful, but well removed from logic and science, and entirely foreign to the world of everyday thought. But Mark Turner argues that this common wisdom is wrong. The

Contents:

Bedtime with Shahrazad

Human meaning

Body action

Figured tales

Creative blends

Many spaces

Single lives

Language.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-983934-4

0-19-985300-2

0-585-33801-9

0-19-802640-4

1-280-45255-2

1-60256-112-5

OCLC:

727649098