Features of the Mental Space Network:A Cognitive Poetics Perspective of To the Lighthouse
The unique Mental Space Network(MSN in short) in the stream-of-consciousness novel To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf causes some challenge to the ordinary readers' appreciation.From the perspective of cognitive poetics,this paper is concerned with the features of the MSN in the discourse on the basis of the Mental Space Theory,namely,backgraunding of the Basic Spaces in the MSN,hierarchical embedding of the MSN and regressionally crossing the Basic Spaces and Subspaces of the MSN.It aims to guide readers to establish the dimensional MSN of the discourse so as to fully apprehend the thematic connotations hidden in the discourse and enhance their aesthetic appreciation o f the novel.
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