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SUMMARY:Growth: Cognitive Linguistics\, Psychology\, and Adolescent Litera
 ture - Prof Roberta Trites\, Illinois State University
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:Roberta Trites employs theories of cognitive linguistics first
  advanced by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson to identify the embodied metap
 hors that govern how adolescent growth is conceptualized within adolescent
  literature. Trites then analyses the embodied metaphors employed by psych
 ologists\, philosophers\, poets\, novelists\, and literary critics in orde
 r to show how consistently growth is depicted within the history of ideas.
  Of particular note is the case of the _Bildungsroman_\, the traditional c
 oming-of-age novel\, which has influenced novelists and literary critics a
 like into privileging specific patterns of growth within fiction so profou
 ndly that growth itself becomes an almost hegemonic force within the field
  of adolescent literature. Trites thus interrogates how embodiment affects
  discursive and structural concepts of growth within adolescent fiction\, 
 examining the epistemological and ontological implications in terms of cog
 nition and literary theory.\n\n*Roberta Seelinger Trites* serves as Distin
 guished Professor of English at Illinois State University. Her books inclu
 de _Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children’s Literature\; D
 isturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature\; Tw
 ain\, Alcott\, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel\;_ and she has
  a book forthcoming in Benjamins’ _Children’s Literature\, Cognition\,
  and Culture_ series: _Literary Conceptualisations of Growth in Adolescent
  Literature._  
LOCATION:Mary Allen Building\, Boulind Room\,  Homerton College\, Hills Ro
 ad\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PH
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