Beware the beast in black: The cognitive poetics of terror in 'Night Crawler'
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Beware the beast in black : The cognitive poetics of terror in 'Night Crawler'. / Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard.
In: Philologie im Netz, Vol. 71, 2015, p. 24-61.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Beware the beast in black
T2 - The cognitive poetics of terror in 'Night Crawler'
AU - Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Acknowledging the need for contemporary philology to expand beyond the literary canon, this article presents a stylistic analysis of Judas Priest's 'Night Crawler' within the framework of cognitive poetics (e.g. Stockwell 2002; Steen/Gavins 2003; Burke 2005; Brandt 2008; Vandaele/Brône 2009; Verdonk 2013). Focusing on application of the narrative function of terror (Radcliffe 1826) which is common in Gothic literature and other forms of verbal art that appeal to our human fear of the unknown, the analysis addresses instances of language use in song that deliberately do not observe the maxim of quantity (Grice 1975) in referring to the monstrous antagonist in the narrative told in the song. In keeping with the purpose of cognitive poetics, the analysis also proposes a number of cognitive capacities that the reader is likely to draw on when construing the vague descriptions of the monster in 'Night Crawler'.
AB - Acknowledging the need for contemporary philology to expand beyond the literary canon, this article presents a stylistic analysis of Judas Priest's 'Night Crawler' within the framework of cognitive poetics (e.g. Stockwell 2002; Steen/Gavins 2003; Burke 2005; Brandt 2008; Vandaele/Brône 2009; Verdonk 2013). Focusing on application of the narrative function of terror (Radcliffe 1826) which is common in Gothic literature and other forms of verbal art that appeal to our human fear of the unknown, the analysis addresses instances of language use in song that deliberately do not observe the maxim of quantity (Grice 1975) in referring to the monstrous antagonist in the narrative told in the song. In keeping with the purpose of cognitive poetics, the analysis also proposes a number of cognitive capacities that the reader is likely to draw on when construing the vague descriptions of the monster in 'Night Crawler'.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - cognitive poetics
KW - cognitive linguistics
KW - cognitive stylistics
KW - stylistics
KW - rock lyrics
KW - English language
KW - Judas Priest
KW - terror as a narrative mode
KW - degree of specificity
KW - multiple specification
KW - diegetic deixis
KW - discursive deixis
KW - presupposition
KW - cognitive semantics
KW - meaning construction
KW - literary language
KW - popular culture
KW - metal music studies
KW - horror as a narrative mode
M3 - Journal article
VL - 71
SP - 24
EP - 61
JO - Philologie im Netz
JF - Philologie im Netz
SN - 1433-7177
ER -
ID: 164294215