A Cognitive Poetic Approach to Paratext: Horace Walpole’s Prefaces to The Castle of Otranto. A Gothic Story

• Authors: Kędra-Kardela Anna
• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

Based on an analysis of two Prefaces to Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. A Gothic Story, the paper offers a cognitive poetics view of paratext, a literary device defined by Genette as “a threshold of interpretation”. Viewed as a symptom of the author’s presence “with-in” and “with-out” text, paratextual information is held to play an important role in text interpretation. It is claimed that a literary work’s interpretation is a result of the speaker/author – hearer/reader meaning negotiation which takes place in the Current Discourse Space (Langacker 2008) and involves intersubjectification, a cognitive process referred to by Langacker as “apprehension of other minds” (Langacker 2007).

Keywords

EN

cognitive poetics; paratext; Ronald W. Langacker; ntersubjectification; Current Discourse Space; Horace Walpole; The Castle of Otranto

• Publisher: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Stowarzyszenie
• Journal: Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 4(128)
• Pages: 55-70

Contributors

author

Kędra-Kardela Anna

• Instytut Anglistyki, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej

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