Graphic Criticism
Semantics, Neurology and Cultural Transmission—A Study of 100 Classic Anglophone Novels
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Advance Praise
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface: Bio-Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Semantic Webs: From Data to Network in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
- 1. Beginning with Beloved
- 2. The Named Body of One Hundred Novels, 1719–1997
- 3. The “Compleat” Semantic World of Robinson Crusoe
- 4. The Semantic World of One Hundred Novels: Evidence and Cases
- 5. BROKE and NOSE in The Great Gatsby: White Male Rage
- 6. The Heart of Beloved and Ninety-Nine Other Novels
- 7. Skin and Trauma
- 8. Windows in Passing: What Goes Out the Window, Not Who
- 9. Audible Man—Voice in Invisible Man
- CODA
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Figures
Figure i.1 Word Cloud of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Figure i.2 Named People in Word Cloud
Figure i.3 Titles of Gendered Roles and Non-Gender Specific in Word Cloud
Figure i.4 The Named Body, and Motor Actions in Word Cloud
Figure i.5 Neurological: Cognitive, Linguistic, Affective & Perceptual Language in Word Cloud
Figure i.6 Language of the Built World; & The Socially Constructed World in Word Cloud
Figure i.7 From Word Cloud to Web
Figure i.8 Word Cloud of Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness
Figure 1.1 Named Body in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Figure 1.2 Four Overarching Semantic Categories
Figure 1.3 Carl Buck’s Categories Rationalized
Figure 1.4a Julius Laffal’s Categories Rationalized—Natural World & Human Being
Figure 1.4b Julius Laffal’s Categories Rationalized—Built World & Socially Constructed World
Figure 1.5 BODY Intensity, Chronological and Incremental
Figure 2.1 Five Major BODY Clusters
Figure 2.2 Eight HEAD Clusters
Figure 2.3 Nineteen BODY Clusters
Figure 2.4 Individual Major Clusters HEAD, Chronological and Incremental
Figure 2.5 Individual Major Clusters UPPER LIMB, Chronological and Incremental
Figure 2.6 Individual Major Clusters TORSO, Chronological and Incremental
Figure 2.7 Individual Major Clusters LOWER LIMB, Chronological and Incremental←xi | xii→
Figure 2.8 Individual Major Clusters SYSTEMS, Chronological and Incremental
Figure 2.9 Map of Five Major BODY clusters, Nineteen Clusters, and 105 Individual Pieces
Figure 3.1 Robinson Crusoe RAW UNIVERSE
Figure 3.2 Robinson Crusoe TREES
Figure 3.3 Robinson Crusoe BODY Head & Hair
Figure 3.4 Robinson Crusoe FACE
Figure 3.5 Robinson Crusoe MIND
Figure 3.6 Robinson Crusoe MOUTH & NOSE
Figure 3.7 Robinson Crusoe EYES & EARS
Figure 3.8 Robinson Crusoe VOICE
Figure 3.9 Robinson Crusoe HEART
Figure 3.10 Robinson Crusoe UPPER LIMB
Figure 3.11 Robinson Crusoe LOWER LIMB
Figure 3.12 Robinson Crusoe AFFECT
Figure 3.13 Robinson Crusoe COGNITION
Figure 3.14 Robinson Crusoe MOTOR BODY
Figure 3.15a Robinson Crusoe BELIEF
Figure 3.15b Robinson Crusoe BELIEF
Figure 3.16 Robinson Crusoe ECONOMICS
Figure 3.17a Robinson Crusoe META-LANGUAGE
Figure 3.17b Robinson Crusoe META-LANGUAGE
Figure 3.18 Robinson Crusoe MONEY
Figure 3.19 Robinson Crusoe TIME & SPACE
Figure 3.20 Robinson Crusoe BOAT
Figure 3.21 Robinson Crusoe CLOTHING, SHELTER, FURNISHINGS
Figure 3.22 Robinson Crusoe FOOD
Figure 3.23 Robinson Crusoe CITIES & COUNTRIES
Figure 3.24 Robinson Crusoe TOOLS & WEAPONS
Figure 4.1 Four Core Semantic Zones of Word Worlds of 100 Novels
Figure 4.2 Fifteen Core Semantic Zones of Word Worlds of 100 Novels
Figure 4.3 Table of Orality in 4 Novels
Figure 4.4 Chart of Orality in 4 Novels
Figure 4.5 Nine Affects in 100 Novels
Figure 4.6 INTEREST in 100 Novels—Chronological and Incremental
Figure 4.7 DESIRE in 100 Novels—Chronological and Incremental
Figure 4.8 ENJOY & PLAY in 100 Novels—Chronological and Incremental
Figure 4.9 SURPRISE in 100 Novels—Chronological and Incremental
Figure 4.10 DISTRESS in 100 Novels—Chronological and Incremental
Figure 4.11 DISGUST in 100 Novels—Chronological and Incremental
Details
- Pages
- XXVI, 178
- Publication Year
- 2022
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433182754
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433182761
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781433182778
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433182747
- DOI
- 10.3726/b17359
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2022 (October)
- Keywords
- Corpus Linguistics Semantic Families Anglophone Novels Cultural Transmission Semantics, Neurology and Cultural Transmission—A Study of 100 Classic Anglophone Novels Martin J. Gliserman Graphic Criticism
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2022. XXVI, 178 pp., 105 b/w ill., 5 color ill.
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