Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats's Poetry

211 Pages·2022·7.184 MB·

by  Katrina Brannon

Routledge Research in Cognitive Humanities
LANGUAGE, COGNITION,
AND EMOTION IN KEATS’S
POETRY
Katrina Brannon
This is a beautifully complex book on John Keats’s emotionality. Katrina
Brannon’s cognitive linguistic analyses reveal the many fne shades of feel-
ing, emotion, sensitivity, mood, and desire in Keats’ oeuvre. She explains
how and why language, cognition, emotion, and body are all indispensably
intertwined in the poetry of one of the greatest romantic poets.
Zoltán Kövecses, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Eötvös
Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Katrina Brannon has carried out a considerable amount of research, both
on linguistics and on poetry and poetics. Her approach is defnitely inno-
vative, and the whole book shows a wide-angled knowledge of cognitive
theories which enables her to bring out quite vividly the linguistic, communi-
cative, and esthetic aspects of Keats’s poetry. This long-awaited book should
become a landmark in poetry and cognition studies.
Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud, Professor of English Stylistics and
Translation Studies, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France
Katrina Brannon’s book presents a very clear linguistic analysis of Keats’s
poems, which draws on cognitive grammar and poetics, fgurative language,
cognitive science, philosophy, and poetry. It focuses on the expression of
emotions and emotional experience in his work. It views language and the
body as forms of communication through which metaphor may be expressed
and conceptualized.
It is an innovative book as it is currently the only monograph that takes
a cognitive approach to Keats’s poetry and a welcome addition to the feld
of poetics and linguistics.
It is a must-read for any scholar interested in Keats, poetics, conceptual
metaphor, or cognitive grammar.
Wilfrid Rotgé, Professor of Linguistics, Sorbonne Université, France

Language, Cognition, and Emotion in
Keats’s Poetry
Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats’s Poetry applies an innovative
cognitive linguistic approach to the poetry of John Keats, the frst of its
kind to employ a cognitive-based framework to explore the expression
and articulation of emotion in his work.
Brannon adopts an embodied perspective to emotion, rooted in
cognitive linguistics, cognitive grammar, and cognitive poetics but also
works from fgurative language and stylistics, in examining a selection
of Keats’s poems. This approach allows for a close interrogation of the
texts themselves but also the languages that compose them, comprising
lexical and grammatical elements, which, when taken together, bring out
the emotional saliency of Keatsian poetry. While revealing fresh insights
into the work of John Keats, the book also sheds further light on the
importance of cognitive approaches to poetic and grammatical analyses
and how both language and the body can serve as forms of communication
through which metaphors can be expressed and contextualized.
This volume will appeal to students and scholars interested in cognitive
linguistics, fgurative language, emotion studies, cognitive science, and
Anglophone poetry.
Katrina Brannon is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the
Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes, France.
Her research interests include cognitive grammar, embodied emotion,
sensorial expression, cognitive poetics and stylistics, conceptual metaphor
theory, esthetics, and translation.
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Language, Cognition, and
Emotion in Keats’s Poetry
Katrina Brannon
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Names: Brannon, Katrina, author.
Title: Language, cognition, and emotion in Keats’s poetry /
Katrina Brannon.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
Series: Routledge research in cognitive humanities | Includes
bibliographical references and index. |
Identifers: LCCN 2022013546 | ISBN 9781032230917 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781032230924 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003275626 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Keats, John, 1795-1821--Literary style. | Emotions
in literature. | Cognition in literature. | LCGFT: Literary criticism.
Classifcation: LCC PR4838.S8 K43 2023 | DDC 821/.7--dc23/
eng/20220425
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022013546
ISBN: 978-1-032-23091-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-23092-4 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-27562-6 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003275626
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To the women of my life: my eyes, my hands, my feet, my
heart.

Contents
Foreword xii
Acknowledgments xiv
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Foundational Framework: Presentation 1
1.2 The Principal Angles of a Cognitive Approach to
Keatsian Poetry 8
1.3 Keats the Poet 11
1.4 Structural Logic of the Book 13
1.5 O utline and Argumentative Logic 15
Notes 17
2 Cognitive Approaches to Poetry 19
2.1 M ethodological Orientation: Perspectives 19
2.2 C ognitive Grammar 19
2.3 P oetic Grammar, Cognitive Poetics 22
2.4 C onceptual Metaphor and Metonymy 24
2.5 P oetic Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy 25
2.6 C onceptual Metaphor and Emotion 29
2.7 F orce-Dynamics and Causality 30
2.8 E mbodied Emotion 31
2.9 C onclusion 32
Notes 33