Received: from mgmt.utoronto.ca (fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca [128.100.43.253]) by mail3.texas.net (8.8.8/2.4) with SMTP id TAA29364 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:59:30 -0600 (CST) Received: by mgmt.utoronto.ca (5.65v4.0/1.1.10.7/26Jan98-0432AM) id AA06005; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:57:17 -0500 From: LouisFors Message-Id: <6edbb7b6.34fcb4ee@aol.com> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:57:00 EST To: emweb@fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: cognitive understanding Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 49 Sender: owner-emweb@fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca Precedence: bulk Reply-To: emweb@fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: 305d39a73775e5a8ef37c4d2d14b762c Margaret wrote" > cognitive analysis can unpack > many of the image schemas that participate in what has been said or > written, and thus reveal more of the cognitive layers that went into making > a text.That's what I was doing, for example, when I made the claim that > Dickinson rejected the LIFE AS A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME metaphor and replaced > it with LIFE IS A VOYAGE IN SPACE.In doing so, I was in fact making a claim > about what she was doing [not what she was thinking]... Is it too simplistic to say that cognitive approaches to the arts search for clues in the works themselves that reveal preferences for certain overarching metaphors that guide creative artists, as you have noted for ED? If so, is it postulated that there are finite numbers of such guiding metaphors? Will they vary according to culture, or according to language? Are there searchs for "guiding metaphors" that can be detected in arts other than the language arts? Could one assert, after study, that Ballanchine was guided by metaphors about motion and power in the human body that, say, Tudor was not? And, I gather, cognitive approaches go much deeper than what we normally think of as style, that there can be stylistic differences working within the same "guiding metaphors." And, I asume these "guiding metaphors" are out-of-awareness of the creating artist. Anything close? Louis Forsdale