Gerald Newman, acclaimed author of The Rise of English Nationalism and holder of the Kent State University Distinguished Teaching Award, surveys his youth, education, students, and career in a memoir sparkling with humor and full of arresting portrayals of school life from both sides of the instructor's desk. This book is critical reading for students on courses in cognitive poetics, stylistics and literary linguistics and will be of interest to all those involved in literary studies, critical theory and linguistics.Ī provocative and often hilarious look at teaching - a beautifully written book that will resonate with anyone who's been a teacher or been taught in America. Cognitive Poetics in Practice can be used on its own or as a companion volume to Peter Stockwell's Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction.
Specifically designed sections suggesting further activities for students are also provided at the end of each case study. The editors' general introduction provides an overview of the field, and each chapter begins with an editors' introduction to set the chapter in context. In each chapter, contributors present a practical application of the methods and techniques of cognitive poetics, to a range of texts, from Wilfred Owen to Roald Dahl. Written by a range of well-known scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries, Cognitive Poetics in Practice offers students a unique insight into this exciting subject. This student-friendly book provides a set of case studies to help students understand the theory and master the practice of cognitive poetics in analysis. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.Ĭognitive Poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. 'The absolute master of the twist in the tale.' (Observer ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Adrian Scarborough. Dip in the Pool is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You, which includes seventeen other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who serves a dish that baffles the police a curious machine that reveals the horrifying truth about plants the man waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach and others. Here, a man acts rashly and life-threateningly to ensure he wins a prize.
In Dip in the Pool, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells an unsettling story of human folly. Dip in the Pool is a short, sharp story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.
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