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Literature and the Metaphoric Universe in the Mind

Nicolae Babuts
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cognitive neuroscience
Conceptual Metaphors
Context Free Meaning
Dead Man
Denis De Rougemont
dynamic
Dynamic Patterns
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ERP Study
ERP Waveform
Evening Angelus
field
Frankish Kingdom
Graded Salience Hypothesis
Human Suffering
image association
Image Schematic Structures
Leconte De Lisle
Marceline Desbordes Valmore
memory processes
mental representation
metaphor theory in literature
Metaphoric Universe
Mihai Eminescu
narrative interpretation
Neuronal Assemblies
patterns
Played Back
Red Sunrise
Sans Dieu
Source Path Goal Schema
Spiritual Perseverance
Standard Cognitive Scientist
symbolic cognition
Transcendent Entity
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9781412856874
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Oct 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Nicolae Babuts believes that the study of metaphoric thought and literature can be enriched by the application of recent discoveries from neuroscientific c experiments. He maintains that metaphors are neither linguistic formations nor conceptual formations, but instead the product of association of images and language. They are a matter of vision.

Memory is an essential component in the creation of meaning and is the way the mind receives messages from the outside world. In this process of transferring data from the outside world, the mind's overriding tendency is to integrate and interpret. Thus, incoming messages are recognized and given meaning whether they are in harmony with the inner world of the mind or in confl ict with it.

Babuts argues that the literature we read is related to our perception of reality. And reality has two identities: the physical identity of the outside world and its symbolic identity within memory. The symbolic identity of the outside world is represented internally by the metaphoric universe in the mind.
About Nicolae Babuts
Nicolae Babuts is emeritus professor of French at Syracuse University, USA, and author of Mimesis in a Cognitive Perspective and Memory, Metaphors, and Meaning, both published by Transaction, as well as other books and articles.

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