Publication: Metaphorical thinking in our literary e...
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Title: | Metaphorical thinking in our literary experiences of J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” |
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Abstract: | This article explores how literary texts, in this case the novel “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, elicit metaphorical thinking as a major part of readers’ interpretive experiences. Our main argument is that metaphorical thinking does not arise only given our encounter with individual verbal metaphors, but emerges in various ways as part of our habitual forms of imaginative metaphorical understandings. Metaphorical thinking is closely linked to embodied simulation processes by which readers project themselves imaginatively into the lives of story characters. Embodied simulation processes capture readers’ rich phenomenological characteristics (e.g., immersion, absorption, transportation) of literary experience. Metaphorical thinking unfolds in hierarchical layers across different time spans during literary reading. |
Keywords: | embodied simulation; imagination; literary experience; metaphor; phenomenology; psycholinguistics |
Publication type: | Article in journal (Authorship) |
Publication date: | 05.04.2021 (Online) |
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Journal of Literary Semantics
Journal of Literary Semantics
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De Gruyter Mouton;
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Title of the series: | Journal of Literary Semantics |
Volume number: | 50 |
Issue: | 1 |
First publication: | Yes |
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Publication date: | 05.04.2021 |
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DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2021-2027 |
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Carina Rasse (internal) | ||||
Raymond Gibbs
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Fakultät für Kultur- und Bildungswissenschaften
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
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AT - 9020 Klagenfurt |
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