Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, September 22nd, 2003
This essay offers a new reading of George Meredith's 1885 novel Diana of the Crossways from the perspective of cognitive theory as it has been developed by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Mark Turner. A cognitive perspective reveals that the novel is as much a network of interrelated metaphors as it is a narrative sequence, and sheds light on Meredith's understanding of the relationship between mind and body. In Diana, marriage is a creative blend (an idea developed by Turner), and the redistribution of its input domains constitutes the movement of the narrative. ********** It is difficult ...
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