Author:
Freeman, Margaret H. author.
ImprintNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Descriptionxv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note:Poetic cognition -- Icon -- Sembiance -- Metaphor -- Schema -- Affect -- The poem as icon -- Asethetic cognition -- Afterword.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-195) and index.
Note:Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures. Its relation to the worlds of human experience has perplexed writers and readers for centuries, as has the question of evaluation and judgment: what makes a poem 'work' and endure. The Poem as Icon focuses on the art of poetry to explore its nature and function: not interpretation but experience; not what poetry means but what it does. Using both historic and contemporary approaches of embodied cognition from various disciplines, Margaret Freeman argues that a poem's success lies in its ability to become an icon of the felt 'being' of reality. Freeman explains how the features of semblance, metaphor, schema, and affect work to make a poem an icon, with detailed examples from various poets.
