Body of Vision: Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Mind

Michael Sinding

Published by University of Toronto Press 2014

Body of Vision

Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Mind

Michael Sinding

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442698154

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About this book

By linking Frye’s classic studies to exciting recent approaches in the humanities and the cognitive revolution of the past few decades, Body of Vision casts Frye’s achievements in a fascinating new light.

Author / Editor information

Sinding Michael :

Michael Sinding is Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Language and Communication at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Reviews

Jeffery Donaldson, Department of English, McMaster University:

“Timely, relevant, and insightful, Body of Vision is a thoughtful and revealing study of Northrop Frye’s important contribution to the field of cognitive poetics. There is a pan-historical continuity in the ‘metaphors we live by,’ Frye showed, a continuity that has at least as much to do with how the brain works as with where the brain finds itself. The inference deserves a hearing and Sinding proves to be an ideal listener for such as these mindful patterns that continue to challenge and improve findings in cultural studies and the variety of social concern criticisms.”

Alvin Lee, General Editor, The Collected Works of Northrop Frye:

“In Body of Vision Michael Sinding has taken on a large intellectual assignment, involving a great deal of hard thinking, and he has succeeded splendidly. I know of no one else in Frye studies who has written so knowledgeably and non-tendentiously about Frye’s ideas in relation to cognitive poetics and poststructuralism. It is something of a marvel how much this tightly reasoned and beautifully organized book contains.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface and Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Landscapes and Prospects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. “Systems That Won’t Quite Do”: Schematic Structure in Literary Metaphor, Myth, and Models Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Spatial and Spiritual Orders: Metaphoric Coherence in Dante’s and Frye’s Cosmologies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
3. Family, City, and Body Politic: Metaphor and Framing in Social Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
4. Pastorals with Power: Universal Nature and the Cultural History of Genre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Conclusion. Minds Transfigured Together: Metaphor, Myth, and Culture in Mind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264

eBook

Published: January 27, 2014
ISBN: 9781442698154