This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to arrive at innovative accounts of a range of literary and textual phenomena. The chapters cover a variety of literary texts, periods, and genres, including poetry, fictional and non-fictional narratives, and plays. Some of the chapters provide new approaches to phenomena that have a long tradition in literary and linguistic studies (such as humour, characterisation, figurative language, and metre), others focus on phenomena that have not yet received adequate attention (such as split-selves phenomena, mind style, and spatial language). This book is relevant to students and scholars in a wide range of areas within linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Foreword Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper ix•xvi Conceptual integration in Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies Craig A. Hamilton 1•22 The body in the word: A cognitive approach to the shape of a poetic text Margaret H. Freeman 23•47 The Figure in the Carpet: Discovery or Re-cognition Yanna Popova 49•71 Miltonic texture and the feeling of reading Peter Stockwell 73•94 A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction Elena Semino 95•122 Between the lines: Spatial language and its developmental representation in Stephen King’s IT Willie van Peer and Eva Graf 123•152 “Split selves” in fiction and in medical “life stories”: Cognitive linguistic theory and narrative practice Catherine Emmott 153•181 Metaphor in Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane”: Genre, language, and style Gerard J. Steen 183•209 Cognitive constraints on verbal creativity: The use of figurative language in poetic discourse Yeshayahu Shen 211•230 Cognitive stylistics of humorous texts Salvatore Attardo 231•250 A cognitive stylistic approach to characterisation Jonathan Culpeper 251•278 Aspects of Cognitive Poetics Reuven Tsur 279•318 Afterword Donald C. Freeman 319•324 Name Index 325 Subject Index 327