青少年文学における成長のメタファーと認知 Literary Conceptualizations of Growth : Metaphors and cognition in adolescent literature (Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition)

Trites, Roberta Seelinger

John Benjamins Publishing Co（2014/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 172 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789027201560
• DDC分類 809.89283

Full Description

Literary Conceptualizations of Growth explores those processes through which maturation is represented in adolescent literature by examining how concepts of growth manifest themselves in adolescent literature and by interrogating how the concept of growth structures scholars' ability to think about adolescence. Cognitive literary theory provides the theoretical framework, as do the related fields of cognitive linguistics and experiential philosophy; historical constructions of the concept of growth are also examined within the context of the history of ideas. Cross-cultural literature from the traditional Bildungsroman to the contemporary Young Adult novel serve as examples. Literary Conceptualizations of Growth ultimately asserts that human cognitive structures are responsible for the pervasiveness of growth as both a metaphor and a narrative pattern in adolescent literature.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Growth, cognitive linguistics, and embodied metaphors; 3. Sequences, scripts, and stereotypical knowledge; 4. Blending and cultural narratives; 5. A case study: Cultural narratives and the "Pixar Maturity Formula"; 6. Epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of experientialism; 7. The hegemony of growth in adolescent literature; 8. Afterword; 9. References; 10. Index