Description

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This book bridges literary studies and cognitive psychology to provide a unique contribution to the field of Cognitive Literary Studies. The book presents an investigation of metaphor in poetic texts, adopting and developing empirical methods used by the Gestalt Psychology, while integrating concepts informed by Gestalt Psychology.

About the Author

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Chanita Goodblatt is a Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University. She works on English, American and Israeli poetry, focusing on the use of Bakhtinian discourse, as well as on the cognitive dimensions of metaphor.Joseph Glicksohn is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, and in the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, at Bar-Ilan University. He was trained in cognitive psychology, with a focus on the study of subjective experience and metaphoric thinking.