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Biographical note
Michael Sinding is Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Language and Communication at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.In Body of Vision, Michael Sinding connects Northrop Frye’s groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the human imagination with cognitive poetics – the cutting-edge school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science to the interpretation of literary texts and contexts. Sinding undertakes this task through analyses of the interplay of metaphoric and narrative schemas in several forms of cultural mythology.
Sinding identifies the profound connections between cognitive views of language, literature, and culture and Frye’s views by exploring three related aspects of Frye’s work – meaning and thought, culture and society, and literary history. He investigates these connections through detailed studies of major cultural texts including Dante’s Divine Comedy, Hobbes’ Leviathan, Rousseau’s Social Contract, and Milton’s "Lycidas." By linking Frye’s classic studies to exciting recent approaches in the humanities and the cognitive revolution of the past few decades, Body of Vision casts Frye’s achievements in a fascinating new light.
By linking Frye’s classic studies to exciting recent approaches in the humanities and the cognitive revolution of the past few decades, Body of Vision casts Frye’s achievements in a fascinating new light.
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: Landscapes and Prospects
Chapter 1. Cognition, Meaning and Culture
“Systems That Won’t Quite Do”: Schematic Structure in Literary Myth, Metaphor, and Models
Chapter 2. Cognition, Culture and Literature
Spatial and Spiritual Orders: Metaphoric Coherence in Dante’s and Frye’s Cosmologies
Chapter 3. Cognition, Culture and Society
Family, City, and Body Politic: Metaphor and Framing in Social Thought
Chapter 4. Cognition, Culture and History
Pastorals With Power: Universal Nature and the Sociology of Genre
Conclusion
Minds Transfigured Together: Metaphor, Myth, and Culture in Mind
Works Cited
Notes
“In Body of Vision Michael Sinding has taken on a large intellectual assignment, involving a great deal of hard thinking, and he has succeeded splendidly. I know of no one else in Frye studies who has written so knowledgeably and non-tendentiously about Frye’s ideas in relation to cognitive poetics and poststructuralism. It is something of a marvel how much this tightly reasoned and beautifully organized book contains.”