EAN: 9783631595930

MEANING AND MIND - ANA MARGARIDA ABRANTES GEBUNDEN

Literature happens in the mind. Literary texts are the product of an intentional mind
addressing another mind  and language is the instrument in this cognitive mediation. This work
emerges in the confluence of three different research areas: literary studies  cognitive
linguistics and cognitive science. Its object is a selection of prose works by Peter Weiss 
covering three different subgenres: experimental  autobiographical  and historical prose.
Within this research framework this study addresses the question of how we make sense of
literary text  i.e.  how literary texts become semantically and existentially meaningful and
what cognitive processes are involved in this task. One second question explored is how mental
processes such as perception  attention or memory are represented in the selected texts  and
how this conveyance confirms or differs from the cognitive study of these processes. The main
aim of this work is thus not to provide an alternative interpretation for the selected texts 
but to explain how the existing ones are made possible on account of the present knowledge
about the human mind.

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