Literary conceptualizations of growth : metaphors and cognition in adolescent literature / Roberta Trites.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trites, Roberta Seelinger, 1962- author.

Series:

Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; Volume 2.

Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 2212-9006 ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Literature--Psychology.

Literature.

Psychology and literature.

Metaphor.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Literary Conceptualizations of Growth explores those processes through which maturation is represented in adolescent literature by examining how concepts of growth manifest themselves in adolescent literature and by interrogating how the concept of growth structures scholars' ability to think about adolescence. Cognitive literary theory provides the theoretical framework, as do the related fields of cognitive linguistics and experiential philosophy; historical constructions of the concept of growth are also examined within the context of the history of ideas. Cross-cultural literature from the traditional Bildungsroman to the contemporary Young Adult novel serve as examples. Literary Conceptualizations of Growth ultimately asserts that human cognitive structures are responsible for the pervasiveness of growth as both a metaphor and a narrative pattern in adolescent literature.

Contents:

Literary Conceptualizations of Growth

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

Introduction

Cognitive linguistics

Brain science

Growth

Acknowledgements

Growth, cognitive linguistics, and embodied metaphors

Background and review of the literature

Cognitive linguistics and embodied metaphors

Embodied metaphors of growth in literary criticism

Fiction as an example: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Conclusion

Sequences, scripts, and stereotypical knowledge

Scripts and stereotypical knowledge in American Born Chinese

Memory, perception, emotion and Margaret Mahy's Memory

Causality, scripts, and Thirteen Reasons Why

Blending and cultural narratives

Blending

Blending in a cool moonlight

Cultural narratives as cognitive blends

Cultural narratives and embodied metaphors in Shusterman's Unwind

Primary and complex metaphors, blending, and cultural narratives in Njunjul the Sun

A case study

Maturity and causality

The Pixar maturity formula

Up and Being-towards-death

Toy Story 3, separation anxiety, and control

Epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of experientialism

Embodied reason in David Almond's novels

The cognitive unconscious and metaphorical thought

The ontology and epistemology of racial construction

Categorization, and epistemology: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The ontology of racism: 47

The hegemony of growth in adolescent literature

Growth: The archaeology of a metaphor

Growth and its historical conceptualizations

The implications of growth metaphors

A historiography of growth metaphors

Growth and the historiography of literature for youth

Afterword

References.

Primary Sources (Books)

Primary Sources (Films)

Secondary Sources

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027269966

9027269963

OCLC:

881607349