The DIVIDED SELF metaphorA cognitive-linguistic study of two poems by Nabokov

  1. Barreras Gómez, Mª Asunción 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Journal:
IJES: international journal of English studies

ISSN: 1578-7044

Year of publication: 2015

Issue Title: Open Issue

Volume: 15

Issue: 1

Pages: 97-113

Type: Article

DOI: 10.6018/IJES/2015/1/211121 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

This paper will approach two of Nabokov’s poems from the perspective of embodied realism in Cognitive Linguistics. We will shed light on the reasons why we believe that Nabokov makes use of the DIVIDED SELF metaphor in his poetry. In the analysis of the poems we will explain how the Subject is understood in the author’s life in exile whereas the Self is understood in the author’s feelings of anguish and longing for his Russian past. Finally, we will also explain how Nabokov’s use of the DIVIDED SELF metaphor thematically structures both poems.

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