Download or read book Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory written by Monika Fludernik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume presents recent approaches to metaphor, illustrates a range of successful applications of the new cognitive models to literary texts, and provides an assessment of cognitive metaphor theory from a literary point of view.