Aiming to encourage a disciplinary alliance between cognitive linguistics and literary studies, this volume collects nine papers bringing together issues from poetics such as the construction
of (text) worlds, character and characterization, narrative perspective, distancing discourse (including irony), humor, emotion, and poetic imagery and concepts from cognitive linguistics such
as embodied cognition, construal and conceptualization, viewpoint mental spaces, iconicity, metaphorical mapping and conceptual blending, construction grammar, and figure/ground alignment in
cognition. Each paper is accompanied by a short response article and the occasional rebuttal. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
