Skácel’s poetic imagery in terms of cognitive science Cover Image

Skácelovo básnické vidění z hlediska kognitivní vědy
Skácel’s poetic imagery in terms of cognitive science

Author(s): Biljana Manolova
Subject(s): Poetry, Cognitive linguistics, Czech Literature, Cognitive Psychology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Cognitive science; Jan Skácel; Irena Vaňková; poetic image of the world; colours; scents; metaphor; time; space; recategorization;

Summary/Abstract: This study is a part of a dissertation thesis which includes a practical cognitive interpretation of Jan Skácel’s poetry. From the cognitive science point of view, the uniqueness of Jan Skácel lies in the originality of his metaphor, in his conception of colours, his way of recategorizing our perception of time and space and in his outstanding ability to recategorize the conceptual language patterns. This extract contains a summary of all interpretative conclusions and offers a definition of Skácel’s poetic world based on the cognitive concept of the language image of the world. The main conclusion is that Skácel’s poetic image of the world is based on the language but crosses borders of his mother tongue (Czech language) at the same time. The summary stresses the fact that the cognitive approach enables us to enter numerous language images of the world provided that we know the language of the text.

  • Issue Year: 13/2010
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 169-187
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Czech