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A prehistory of cognitive poetics : neoclassicism and the novel /

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"Bringing neoclassicism back into today's critical debates, this study considers the cognitive underpinnings of the rules of poetic justice, the unities and decorum, underlines their relevance for today's cognitive poetics and traces their influence in the emerging narrative form of t...

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Main Author: Kukkonen, Karin, 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:Cognition and poetics.
Subjects:
Fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Neoclassicism (Literature)
Poetics.
Cognition in literature.
Literature and society > Europe > History > 18th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Fiction.
Literature and society.
Europe.
1700-1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Summary:"Bringing neoclassicism back into today's critical debates, this study considers the cognitive underpinnings of the rules of poetic justice, the unities and decorum, underlines their relevance for today's cognitive poetics and traces their influence in the emerging narrative form of the eighteenth-century novel"--
Physical Description:xv, 263 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190634766
0190634766