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Routledge Similes, Puns and Counterfactuals in Literary Narrative

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Jennifer Riddle Harding offers a comprehensive cognitive analysis of three distinct figures of speech in this Routledge academic study. The book examines how similes, puns, and counterfactuals function within literary narrative, revealing their unique narrative capabilities such as depicting conscious experiences, conveying allegorical meanings, and constructing alternative plot lines. Unlike metaphors, which often remain structurally invisible within texts, these three figures possess readily identifiable formal characteristics that Harding investigates through a cognitive linguistic framework. This rigorous scholarly work explores the relationship between figurative language and narrative structure, providing literary scholars, linguistics students, and narrative theorists with detailed analysis of how these rhetorical devices shape meaning and reader experience. Part of the Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics series, the book combines theoretical grounding with practical literary examples.

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Cognitive linguistic analysis of similes, puns, and counterfactuals as deployed across literary narrative texts.

Examines how these three figures of speech create narrative functions including allegorical meanings and alternative plot structures.

Published by Routledge as part of the established Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics academic series.

Contrasts visible figurative forms with metaphors, addressing how formal structure influences textual interpretation.

Scholarly resource designed for literature students, rhetoric specialists, and narrative theory researchers.

Product Specifications
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Routledge
Format
hardcover
ASIN
1138928135
Category
Books > Subjects > Humour > Puns & Wordplay
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
01 March 2017
Listed Since
18 August 2015

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