Product Description

Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70517 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Mark Turner is Professor of English and an affiliate of the Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Maryland. He has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1996-97, he is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Customer Reviews

A new perception on life, language and literature, Great
Mark Turner sees the everyday mind as a literary mind. He connect the study of literature to whatever is basic to human beings. The cognitive approach tries to ask the questions of what it means to be human, and Turner understand literature as one of the most developed products of everyday language and cultural concepts. In "The Literary Mind" he explores metaphors and proverbs as basic for our human understanding. Blending is seen as a basic mental operation whose uniform structural and dynamic properties apply over many areas of thought and action. The book is very interesting and provides the reader with a new perception on life, language and literature.