From Metaphor to Iconicity in a Poetic Text

Freeman, Margaret H.

From Metaphor to Iconicity in a Poetic Text

THE METAPHORS OF SIXTY: PAPERS PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF ZOLTAN KOVECSES, pp, 127-135, Benczes, Réka, and Szilvia Csábi, eds., Eötvös Loránd University, 2006

10 Pages Posted: 3 Jul 2009

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Margaret H. Freeman

Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA

Date Written: June 29, 2009

Abstract

This paper is a brief sketch of the development of cognitive poetic theory from traditional to cognitive accounts of metaphor to poetic iconicity, as they can be traced in the interpretation of one Dickinson poem.

Keywords: metaphor, iconicity, cognitive poetics, Emily Dickinson

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Freeman, Margaret H., From Metaphor to Iconicity in a Poetic Text (June 29, 2009). THE METAPHORS OF SIXTY: PAPERS PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF ZOLTAN KOVECSES, pp, 127-135, Benczes, Réka, and Szilvia Csábi, eds., Eötvös Loránd University, 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1427403