In:Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and interpretation
Carina Rasse
[Figurative Thought and Language 15] 2022
► pp. 180–188
References
Published online: 27 June 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.15.ref
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.15.ref
Abbott, P. H. (2006). Cognitive Literary Studies: The “Second Generation”, The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity. Poetics Today 27(4):711–722. .
Angelou, M. (1994). Caged Bird. The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou. New York: Random House Inc.
Armantrout, R. (2015). The Difficulty. Poetry Magazine. [URL]
(2019). Some Thoughts on Ambiguity: Mystery, Truth, and Lies [URL]
Beck, F. (1971). The Copper Husk Allegory. In The Copper Husk Allegory. New York: Raw Sky Productions.
Bergen, B. K. (2012) Louder than words: the new science of how the mind makes meaning. New York: Basic Books.
Boers, F. & Littlemore, J. (2000). Cognitive style variables in participants’ explanations of conceptual metaphors. Metaphor and Symbol 15(3), 177–187.
Boroditsky, L. (2011). How languages construct time. In Dehaene S. & Brannon E. (Eds.), Space, time and number in the brain: Searching for the foundations of mathematical thought (p.333–341). Elsevier Academic Press.
Boulenger, V., Shtyrov, Y & Pulvermüller, F. (2012). When do you grasp the idea? MEG evidence for instantaneous idiom understanding. Neuroimage 59(4), 3502–3513.
Brone, G. & Vandaele, J. (2009). Cognitive Poetics: Goals, Gains, and Gaps. Berlin & New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
Cacciari, C. & Glucksberg, S. (1995): Understanding idioms: Do visual images reflect figurative meanings?, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 7:3, 283–305.
Callies, M. & Degani, M. (Eds.), (2021). Metaphor in Language and Culture across World Englishes. London: Bloomsbury.
Cameron, L., Maslen, R., Todd, Z., Maule, J., Stratton, P., & Stanley, N. (2009). The discourse dynamics approach to metaphor and metaphor-led discourse analysis. Metaphor and Symbol, 24(2), 63–89.
Cameron, L., & Maslen, R. (Eds.). (2010). Metaphor Analysis: Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities. London: Equinox.
Caracciolo, M. (2013). Patterns of Cognitive Dissonance in Readers’ Engagement with Characters. Enthymema VIII, pp.21–37.
Casasanto, D. (2009). Embodiment of abstract concepts: Good and bad in right- and left handers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(3), 351–367.
Claassen, E. (2012). Author Representation in Literary Reading. Linguistic Approaches to Literature 11. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Cockcroft, R. (2002) Renaissance Rhetoric: Reconsidered Passion – The Interpretation of Affect in Early Modern Writing. London: Palgrave.
Crisp, P. (2008). Between extended metaphor and allegory: is blending enough? Language and Literature, 17(4), 291–308.
Csabi, S. (Ed.) (2018). Expressive minds and artistic creations: Studies in cognitive poetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cuccio, V. & Steen, G. (2018). Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication: Vol. 7. Attention to metaphor: From neurons to representations. Amsterdam & Philadelphi: John Benjamins.
Deignan, A. (2005). Metaphor and corpus linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Desai, R. H., Binder, J. R., Conant, L. L., Mano, Q. R., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2011). The neural career of sensory-motor metaphors. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 23(9), 2376–2386.
Discorfano, S. (2017). Teaching Poetry, Embracing Perspectives: A Guide for Middle School Teachers. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
El Refaie, Elisabeth. (2019).Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives. Oxford University Press.
Fauconnier, G. & Turner, M. (2002) The way we think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s hidden complexities. New York: Basic Books.
Forceville, C. (2012). Creativity in pictorial and multimodal advertising metaphors. In Jones R. H. (Ed.), Discourse and creativity (pp.113–132). Pearson
Freeman, M. (2000). Poetry and the scope of metaphor: toward a theory of cognitive poetics. In Barcelona A. (Ed.), Metaphor and metonymy at the crossroads: a cognitive perspective (pp.253–281). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
(2007). Cognitive linguistic approaches to literary studies: State of the art in cognitive poetics. In Geeraerts D. & Cuyckens H. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of cognitive linguistics (pp.1175–1202.). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Fuhrman, O., McCormick, K., Chen, E., Jiang, H., Shu, D., Mao, S., & Boroditsky, L. (2011). How linguistic and cultural forces shape conceptions of time: English and Mandarin time in 3D. Cognitive Science, 35(7):1305–28. .
Gallese, V. (2016). Finding the body in the brain. From Simulation Theory to Embodied Simulation, In Kornblith H. & McLaughlin B. (Eds.,), Alvin Goldman and his Critics (pp.297–317). New York: Blackwell.
Gallese V. (2020) A Bodily Take on Aesthetics: Performativity and Embodied Simulation. In: Pennisi A., Falzone A. (Eds.), The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, vol 23. Springer, Cham.
Gallese, V. & Lakoff, G. (2005). The Brain’s Language: the role of sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22(3), 455–479.
Gavins, J. (2020). Poetry in the Mind: The Cognition of Contemporary Poetic Style. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press.
Gentner, D., & Bowdle, B. F. (2001). Convention, form, and figurative language processing. Metaphor and Symbol, 16 (3-4), 223–247.
Gentner, D., & Bowdle, B. (2008). Metaphor as structure-mapping. In Gibbs, R. W. Jr. (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought (p.109–128). Cambridge University Press.
Gibbs, R. W. (1994). The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2018). Words making love together: dynamics of metaphoric creativity. In Winter-Froemel, E. & Thaler, V. (Eds.), Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research (pp.23–47)
(2020). Allegory in literature and life. In Čubrović, B. (Ed.), BELLS90 proceedings: International Conference to Mark the 90th Anniversary of the English Department, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, p.13–31.
Gibbs, R. W., & O'Brien, J. E. (1990). Idioms and mental imagery: The metaphorical motivation for idiomatic meaning. Cognition, 36(1), 35–68.
Gibbs, R. & Nascimento, S. (1996). How we talk when we talk about love: metaphorical concepts and understanding love poetry. In Kreuz R. & MacNealy M. (Eds), Empirical approaches to literature and aesthetics (pp.221–240). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Gibbs, R. W, Bogdanovich, J. M., Sykes, J. R., & Dale, J. B. (1997). Metaphor in Idiom Comprehension. Journal of memory and language 37: 141–154.
Gijssels, T., & Casasanto, D. (2017). Conceptualizing time in terms of space: Experimental evidence. In Dancygier B. (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (pp.651–668). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gibbs, R. & Boers, E. (2005). Metaphoric processing of allegorical poetry. In Maalej Z. (Ed.), Metaphor and culture (pp.44–61). Tunis: University of Manouba Press.
Gibbs, R. W., Jr., & Chen, E. (2017). Taking metaphor studies back to the Stone Age: A reply to Xu, Zhang, & Wu (2016), Intercultural Pragmatics, 14(1), 117–124.
Gibbs, R. & Okonski, L. (2018). Cognitive poetics of allegorical experience. In Csabi S. (Ed.), Expressive minds and artistic creations: studies in cognitive poetics (pp.33–55). New York: Oxford University Press.
Gibbs, R., & Colston, H. (2012). Interpreting figurative meaning. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Glenberg, A. M. & Kaschak, M. P. (2002). Grounding language in action. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 9(3):558–65.
Glucksberg, S. (2001). Understanding figurative language: From metaphors to idioms. New York: Oxford University Press.
Glucksberg S, Keysar B. (1990). Understanding metaphorical comparisons: Beyond similarity. Psychological Review 97:3–8.
Glucksberg, S., & Haught, C. (2006). On the relation between metaphor and simile: When comparison fails. Mind and Language, 21, 360–378.
González, J., Barros-Loscertales, A., Pulvermüller, F., Meseguer, V., Sanjuán, A., Belloch, V., & Avila, C. (2006). Reading cinnamon activates olfactory brain regions. NeuroImage, 32(2), 906–912.
Grady, J. (1997). Foundations of Meaning: Primary Metaphors and Primary Scenes. Unpublished PhD Dissertation. University of California at Berkeley
Hampe, B. (Ed.) (2017). Metaphor: embodied cognition and discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Havas, D. A., Glenberg, A. M., & Rinck, M. (2007). Emotion simulation during anguage comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 436–441.
Hogan, P. C. (2003). The mind and its stories: Narrative universal and human emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hrushovski, B. (1984). Fictionality and Fields of Reference: Remarks on a Theoretical Framework. Poetics Today, 5(2), 227–251.
Huff, M. (October 2017). Mr. Huff’s Literature Class [Video]. YouTube. [URL]
Jacobs, A. & Kinder, A. (2017). The brain is the prisoner of thought: a machine learning assisted quantitative narrative analysis of literary metaphors for use in neurocognitive poetics. Metaphor and Symbol 32(3), 139–160.
Jacobs, A. (2015). Neurocognitive poetics: methods and models for investigating the neuronal and cognitive-affective bases of literature reception. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9, e00186.
Jacobs, A. M. (2017). Quantifying the beauty of words: a neurocognitive poetics perspective. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, 622.
(2018a). The Gutenberg English Poetry Corpus: Exemplary Quantitative narrative analyses. Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 5, 5.
(2018b). (Neuro-) Cognitive Poetics and Computational Stylistics. Scientific Study of Literature, 8(1), 165–208.
Katz, Al. N. (2017). Psycholinguistic approaches to metaphor acquisition and use. In Semino, E., & Demjén, Z. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. Abingdon: Routledge.
Kay, C., Roberts, J., Samuels, M., Wotherspoon, I., & Alexander, M. (2015). Metaphor Map of English. In Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. ([URL])
Kimmel, M. (2013). The Arc from the Body to Culture: How Affect, Proprioception, Kinesthesia, and Perceptual Imagery Shape Cultural Knowledge (and vice versa). Integral Review, 9(2).
Kövecses, Z. (2002) Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2017).Conceptual metaphor thoery. In Koller, V. Semino E. & Demjen Z. (Eds.), Routledge handbook of metaphor and language (pp.56–69). London: Routledge.
(2018). Metaphor universals in literature. [URL].
Lacey, S., Stilla, R., & Sathian, K. (2012). Metaphorically feeling: comprehending textural metaphors activates somatosensory cortex. Brain and Language, 120, 416–421.
Lakoff, G. (1993). The contemporary theory of metaphor. In Ortony A. (Ed.), Metaphor and thought (p.202–251). Cambridge University Press.
(2014). Mapping the brain’s metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason. Front. Hum. Neurosci., 16 December 2014 |
Lakoff, G., Espenson, J. & Schwarz, A. (1991). Master metaphor list (second draft copy). Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley. Online <[URL]>
(1999). Philosophy in the flesh: The embodied mind and Its challenge to Western thought. New York: Basic Books.
Lakoff, G., & Turner, Mark. (1989). More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lauer, G. (2016). Ready for a Handbook? Cognitive Literary Studies on a Threshold. Journal of Literary Theory. [URL]
Lauro, R. Leonor J., Mattavelli, G., Papagno, C. & Tettamanti. M. (2013). She runs, the road runs, my mind runs, bad blood runs between us: Literal and figurative motion verbs: An fMRI study. NeuroImage 83. 361–371.
Lim, S. G. (1980). Night Vision. Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems. Kuala Lumpur: Heinemann Educational Books
Littlemore, J. (2015). Metonymy: hidden shortcuts in language, thought and communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mandler, J. (2008). How to build a baby: III. Image schemas and the transition to verbal thought. In Hampe B. (Ed.), From Perception to Meaning (pp.137–164). Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
Müller, C. & Ladewig, S. H. (2013). Metaphors for sensorimotor experiences. Gestures as embodied and dynamic conceptualizations of balance in dance lessons. In Dancygier, B., Hinnell, J. & Borkrent, M. (Eds.), Language and the creative mind (pp.295–394). Stanford: CSLI.
Nunez, R. E & Sweetser, E. (2006). With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time. Cognitive Science 30 (3):401–450.
Onysko, A. (2017). Conceptual metaphor variation in meaning interpretation: Evidence from speakers of New Zealand English. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4 (1): 7–36.
Otis, L. (2015). Rethinking Thought: Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pérez-Sobrino, P. & Julich, N. (2014) Let’s Talk Music: A Corpus-Based Account of Musical Motion, Metaphor and Symbol, 29:4, 298–315,
Peterson, J. D. (2020). How we got here. In Poems on the Effects of 21st Century Populism. disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory 29(3).
Phelan, J. (2009). Cognitive narratology, rhetorical narratology, and interpretive disagreement: A response to Alan Palmer’s analysis of Enduring Love. Style 43 (3). 309–321.
Pires de Oliveira, R. & de Souza Bittencourt, R. (2008). An interview with Mark Johnson and Tim Rohrer: From neurons to sociocultural situatedness. In Roslyn F., Dirven R., Bernárdez E. & Ziemke T. (Eds.), Body, Lanuguage and Mind (Vol. 2). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter
Pragglejaz Group (2007). A practical and flexible method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse. Metaphor and Symbol 22, 1–39.
Quora. (2021). What readers expect from poetry. [URL]
. (2021). What poets want to express after all. [URL]
Rasse, C. (2018). A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to the Study of Metaphors in James Arthur’s Poem “Wind”. Moderne Sprachen, 62(2), 189–205.
Rasse, C., Onysko, A. & Citron, F. (2020). Conceptual metaphors in poetry interpretation: a psycholinguistic approach. Language and Cognition, 12(2), 310–342. Cambridge University Press.
Rasse, C. & Gibbs, R. W. (2021). Metaphorical thinking in our literary experiences of J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”. Journal of Literary Semantics 50(1): 3–23.
Rubio-Fernández, P. (2007). Suppression in metaphor interpretation: Differences between meaning selection and meaning construction. Journal of Semantics, 24, 345–371. Sanford et al. 2003.
Sapir, E. (1929). A study in phonetic symbolism. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 12(3), 225–239.
Šarić, L. & Stanojević, M. (Eds.), (2019). Metaphor, Nation and Discourse. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 82. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Schank, R. C., & Abelson, R. P. (1977). Scripts, plans, goals and understanding: An inquiry into human knowledge structures. Lawrence Erlbaum
Schmitt, C., Greifenstein, S., & Kappelhoff, H. (2014). Expressive movement and metaphoric meaning making in audio-visual media. In Müller, C. Cienki A., & Fricke E. (Eds), Body-language-communication: An international handbook on multimodality in human interaction (pp.2092–2112). Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
Schrott, R. & Jacobs, A. (2011). Gehirn und Gedicht. Wie wir unsere Wirklichkeiten konstruieren. Munich: Hanser Verlag
Semino, E. & Culpeper, J. (Eds). (2002). Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Semino, E., & Demjén, Z. (Eds.), (2017). The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. Abingdon: Routledge.
Shutova, E. (2013). Metaphor identification as interpretation. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 1: Proceedings of the Main
Smith, M. B. (2020). A poem without metaphors. The Beloit Poetry Journal 70(1). [URL]
Šorm, E., & Steen, G. (2013). Processing visual metaphor: A study in thinking out loud. Metaphor and the Social World, 3, 1–34.
Spolsky, E. (1993). Gaps in nature: Literary interpretation and the modular mind. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Stanfield, R. A. & Zwaan. R. A., (2001). The Effect of Implied Orientation Derived from Verbal Context on Picture Recognition. Psychological Science 12(2):153–156.
Steen, G. (2003) ‘“Love stories”: cognitive scenarios in love poetry’, in Gavins J. and Steen G. (Eds.), Cognitive Poetics in Practice, London: Routledge, pp.67–82
(2008). The paradox of metaphor: Why we need a three-dimensional model of metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol, 23, 213–241.
(2009). From linguistic form to conceptual structure in five steps: Analyzing metaphor in poetry. In Brône, G. & Vandaele, J., (Eds.), Cognitive poetics: Goals, gains, gaps. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 197–226.
(2017). Deliberate Metaphor Theory: Basic assumptions, main tenets, urgent issues. Intercultural Pragmatics 2017; 14(1): 1–24.
Steen, G. J., Dorst, A. G., Herrmann, B. J., Kaal, A., Krennmayr, T. & Pasma, T. (2010). A method for linguistic metaphor identification: from MIP to MIPVU. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Sweetser, E. (1990). From etymology to pragmatics: Metaphoric and cultural aspects of semantic structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Valenzuela, J. & Soriano, C. 2007. Looking at Metaphors: A Picture-Word Priming Task As a Test for the Existence of Conceptual Metaphor. Bells: Barcelona English Language and Literature Studies, 16.
Van den Haak, M., De Jong, M. & Schellens, P. J. (2003) Retrospective vs. concurrent think aloud protocols: Testing the usability of an online library catalogue, Behaviour & Information Technology, 22(5): 339–351,
Xue, S., Lüdtke, J., Sylvester, T. & Jacobs, A. M. (2019) Reading Shakespeare sonnets: combining quantitative narrative analysis and predictive modeling – an eye tracking study. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 12(5):2.
Zanker, A. (2019). Metaphor in Homer: Time, Speech, and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zapruder, M. (2017). Understanding Poetry Is More Straightforward Than You Think. New York Times. [URL]
