Margaret H. Freeman
Professor Emeritus, Los Angeles Valley College
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts
23 Avery Brook Road, Heath, MA 01346-0132, USA.

Publications

Poetic Iconicity. In Cognition in Language: Volume in Honour of Professor Elzbieta Tabakowska, 472-501. Wladyslaw Chlopicki, Andrzej Pawelec and Agnieszka Pokojska, eds. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Kraków: Tertium, 2007.

Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Literary Studies: State of the Art in Cognitive Poetics. In The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 1821-1866. Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

The Fall of the Wall between Literary Studies and Linguistics: Cognitive Poetics. In Applications of Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations and Fields of Application, 403-428. Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, René Dirven, and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, eds., Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.

“Art, Science, and Ste. Emilie’s Sunsets: A Háj-inspired Cognitive Approach to Translating an Emily Dickinson Poem into Japanese.” With Masako Takeda. Festschrift for John Robert Ross. Style 40.1-2 (2006): 109-127.

“From Metaphor to Iconicity in a Poetic Text.” In Festschrift for Zoltán Kövcesces, 127-135. 2006.

“Blending: A Response.” Language and Literature 15.1 (2006): 107-117.

“Is Iconicity Literal? Cognitive Poetics and the Literal Concept in Poetry.” In The Literal and Nonliteral in Language and Thought, 65-83. Seana Coulson and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, eds. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005.

“The Nature of Poetic Texts. Review of Reuven Tsur, On the Shore of Nothingness: A Study in Cognitive Poetics.” Poetics Today (2005) 26.3 535-547.

“Poetry as Power: The Dynamics of Cognitive Poetics as a Scientific and Literary Paradigm.” In Cognition and Literary Interpretation in Practice, 31-57. Harri Veivo, Bo Pettersson, and Merja Polvinen, eds. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2005

“The Poem as Complex Blend: Conceptual Mappings of Metaphor in Sylvia Plath’s ‘The Applicant’.” In Language and Literature 14:1 (2005): 25-44.

“Crossing the Boundaries of Time: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology and Cognitive Linguistic Theories.”

In Linguagem, Cultura e Cognição: Estudos de Linguística Cognitiva, 2: 643-655. 2 vols. Augusto Soares da Silva, Amadeu Torres, Miguel Gonçalves, eds. Coimbra: Almedina, 2004.

Review of Adam Glaz. The Dynamics of Meaning: Explorations in the Conceptual Domain of EARTH. Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, 2002. In Journal of English Linguistics 32:2 (2004): 147-150.

“Grounded Spaces in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” In Stylistics, 201-210. Paul Simpson, ed.. London and New York: Routledge: 2004.

“Cognitive Mapping in Literary Analysis.” Style 36:3 (2002) 466-83.

“The Body in the Word: A Cognitive Approach to the Shape of a Poetic Text .” In Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis 23-47. Eds. Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002.

“Momentary Stays, Exploding Forces: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Poetics of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost.” Journal of English Linguistics 30:1 (2002) 73-90.

“Emily Dickinson’s Double Language: An Introduction to the Writings of Hans W. Luescher.” With Rolf Amsler. In Emily Dickinson at Home, 249-266. Gudrun M. Grabher and Martina Antretter, eds.. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001.

Review of Emily Dickinson in Time: Experience and Its Analysis in Progressive Verbal Form. By Morag Harris. Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 13:1 (2001) 30-31.

“Poetry and the Scope of Metaphor: Toward a Cognitive Theory of Literature.” In Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads, 253-81. Antonio Barcelona, ed. Berlin: Mouton,2000.

“Emily Dickinson’s Poems in a New and Clearer Light.” Review of R. W. Franklin, ed. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 10:2 (1998) 1-3, 23.

“Tropes and Figures: Troping as Poetic Strategy.” The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Gudrun M. Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle, and Cristanne Miller, eds. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

“Metaphors of Mind: Analogical Mapping in Teaching Poetry.” The Pedagogical Quarterly of Cognitive Linguistics 1:1 (1998) http://pqcl.indstate.edu/.

Review of Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson. By Paul Crumbley. Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 10:1 (1998) 17-18.

“Another Way to See: Emily Dickinson’s Cognitive Power.” Thoughts, Department of English, Chulalangonkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, (1998) 19–27.

“Grounded Spaces: Deictic -Self Anaphors in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” Language and Literature 6:1 (1997) 7–28.

“ Emily Dickinson and the Discourse of Intimacy.” Semantics of Silences In Linguistics and Literature, 191-210. Gudrun M. Grabher and Ulrike Jeßner, eds. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1996.

“Metaphor Making Meaning: Dickinson's Conceptual Universe.” Journal of Pragmatics 24.6 (1995) 643–666.

“Dickinson and the ‘Foreign’.” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 7:2 (1995) 14–15.

“Cognitive Approaches to Poetry and Translation: A Seminar.” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 7:2 (1995) 21.

“The Joy of Words: Thomas John Carlisle.” Poet to Poet Series. Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 6:1 (1994), 4–5, 13.

“Review of New Poems of Emily Dickinson.” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 5:2 (1993) 13–14.

“Review of Emily Dickinson Visits Boston.” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 3:1 (1991) 10.

“Teaching Linguistics in an Interdisciplinary Curriculum.” Innovations in Linguistics Education 3.1 (1983) 65-71.

Editions

“Metaphor and Beyond: New Cognitive Developments.” With Monika Fludernik and Donald C. Freeman. Poetics Today 20:3 (1999) 383-96.

Swearing by the Cuckoo: Translators on Translating Emily Dickinson. Margaret H. Freeman, Gudrun M. Grabher, and Roland Hagenbüchle, eds. Special Issue of The Emily Dickinson Journal 6:2 (1997).

Work in Progress

“Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Literary Studies: State of the Art in Cognitive Poetics.” In Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. D. Geeraerts and H. Cuyckens, eds. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

“Minding: Feeling, form, and meaning in the creation of poetic iconicity.” In Cognitive Poetics, Geert Brone and Jeroen Vandaele, eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, forthcoming.

“The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics: Cognitive poetics.” In Applications of Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations and Fields of Application. Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, René Dirven, and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, eds., Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, forthcoming.

Research Interests

Cognitive poetics
cognitive semiotics
cognitive linguistics
philosophy
Emily Dickinson