I’ve posted this essay in pdf format because it’s almost 4000 words long and there are lots of pictures, so it’s a bit easier this way. This is my first foray into text world theory and I’ve got some of it wrong, to be honest, so if you want to make use of the arguments…
Tag: cognitive poetics
Figure and ground in Michael Symmons Roberts’ ‘What’s Yours is Mine’
What’s Yours is Mine By Michael Symmons Roberts ‘Doors which yield to a touch of the hand… permit anyone to enter.’ Thomas More, Utopia It was our game, to drive at night into their city, scan the streets, choose a house at random and stroll in mid-evening as the householders were finishing, say, a…
Writing 101: All those hours I’ll never get back
Day 4 of Writing 101 and we’re supposed to write about a loss. I’m going to write about the many, many hours I have devoted to playing daft games on my iPhone: hours of my life that I won’t get back. To be honest, I’ve had a bit of a rough time this year. My…
Marinated and battered administrator with chips and mushy peas
I’ve been reading Peter Stockwell’s Cognitive Poetics, and one of the suggested exercises was to write your life story as a cookery recipe, which sounded like fun, so I’ve given it a go. One thing I noticed straight away as soon as I started to write was just how many very violent verbs there are…
