Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics: Second, Expanded & Updated Edition Expanded And Updated, Expanded & Updated edition

Provides a comprehensive view of poetry, with chapters the sound stratum of poetry; the units-of-meaning stratum; the world stratum; regulative concepts; and the poetry of orientation and disorientation. This book consists of samples from the author's study of the rhythmical performance of poetry and the expressiveness of speech sounds.