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The Stylistics of Embodiment: Language and Sensory Memory in Lyric Texts
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Languages. (Lnuc IMS)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6428-9873
2025 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This book presents a stylistic framework for analysing embodiment in lyric texts. While the assumption that our minds are embodied underlies most approaches in cognitive stylistics (and beyond), a systematic account of the linguistic patterns through which the body may be manifested in poetic expression has not yet been provided. Aiming to fill this gap, the book focuses on contemporary lyric texts that prominently engage the senses in depicting past experiences. Drawing its tools mainly from Cognitive Grammar and research on conceptual metaphors and iconicity, the book investigates how sensory language gives rise to simulated embodied responses. In doing so, the book views poetic expression as a complex interplay of modalities and seeks to expand the concept of the lyric by incorporating digital poetry, song lyrics, performance poetry and lyrical prose among its case studies. The book furthermore brings in current cognitive scientific research on the workings of memory to the analysis of sensory memory, most centrally the psychological phenomenon of mental time travel. It will be of interest to students and scholars working on stylistics, literary studies, and multimodal and intermedial studies.

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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. , p. 250
Keywords [en]
Poetry, memory, senses, body, embodiment, multimodality, intermediality, style
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General Literature Studies
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Humanities, English literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-136428DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78230-5Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105002977396ISBN: 9783031782305 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-136428DiVA, id: diva2:1936802
Available from: 2025-02-11 Created: 2025-02-11 Last updated: 2025-09-23Bibliographically approved

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