Modelling the Mind: Conceptual Blending and Modernist Narratives

This thesis offers a new approach to mind modelling in modernist narratives. Taking Nietzsche’s work as exemplary of modernist ideas about cognition’s relational basis, I argue that conceptual blending theory, a particularly cogent model of a fundamental cognitive process, has roots in modernism. I...

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Main Author: Copland, Sarah
Other Authors: Cuddy-Keane, Melba
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19027