Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- A.A. Milne;Hundred Acre Wood;Winnie-the-Pooh;House at Pooh Corner;Christopher Robin (Fictitious character);Arcadian fantasy;Victorian Period;Edwardian Period;English literature;Victorian childhood;Victorian child-rearing ideology;British boarding schools;children's literature;traumatic childhoods;Christopher Milne (1)
- Biocultural criticism (1)
- Cognitive approaches (1)
- Culture (1)
- Evolutionary approaches (1)
- Publication
- File Type
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Psychology
Idealization And Desire In The Hundred Acre Wood: A.A. Milne And Christopher (Robin), Laura Bright
Idealization And Desire In The Hundred Acre Wood: A.A. Milne And Christopher (Robin), Laura Bright
Laura E Bright
Argues that A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner represent the conscious rejection, unconscious reproduction, and re-imaging of the author's traumatic Victorian childhood.
Wordsworth's Habits Of Mind: Knowledge Through Experience (Review), Nancy Easterlin
Wordsworth's Habits Of Mind: Knowledge Through Experience (Review), Nancy Easterlin
Nancy Easterlin
No abstract provided.
A Biocultural Approach To Literary Theory And Interpretation, Nancy Easterlin
A Biocultural Approach To Literary Theory And Interpretation, Nancy Easterlin
Nancy Easterlin
Combining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theory and criticism opens up new possibilities for literary interpretation. Easterlin maintains that the practice of literary interpretation is still of central intellectual and social value. Taking an open yet judicious approach, she argues, however, that literary interpretation stands to gain dramatically from a fair-minded and creative application of cognitive and evolutionary research. This work does just that, expounding a biocultural method that charts a middle course between overly reductive approaches to literature and traditionalists who see the sciences as a threat to …
The Visual Experience Of Image Metaphor: Cognitive Insights Into Imagist Figures, Daniel W. Gleason
The Visual Experience Of Image Metaphor: Cognitive Insights Into Imagist Figures, Daniel W. Gleason
Dan Gleason
In this essay I investigate how image metaphors – metaphors that link one concrete object to another, such as “her spread hand was a starfish” – promote visualization in the reader. Focusing on image metaphors in Imagist poetry, I assert that the two terms (e.g., the hand and the starfish) of many of these metaphors are similar in shape, and that this “structural correspondence” encourages the reader to visualize those metaphors. Readers may spontaneously form a “visual template,” a schematic middle ground that mediates between those similar shapes, in order to smoothly move between the two images within each metaphor. …