本书从关联理论出发进行文学研究，如利用文本中一些重要的或者普遍被忽略的细节——身体语、非人类的信息传递—去进行广博的历史、文化关联，并生发出深邃的洞察。本书汇集了众多知名学者的研究论文，是一部将语言学应用于文学分析的佳作，为认知诗学这个新兴领域增加了一个理论向度。

Note on Pronouns
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Terence Cave and Deirdre Wilson
1.The Mind in Motion: A Cognitive Reading ofW.B.Yeats's 'Long-legged Fly' Elleke Boehmer
2.Relevance Across History Raphael Lyne
3.Relevance Theory and Kinesic Analysis in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary Guillemette Bolens
4.Relevance Theory and the Effect of Literature on Beliefs: The Example of Injun Joe in Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer Neil Ken ny
5.On the Borders of the Ostensive: Blushing in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth Kirsti SellevoM
6.'Invisible Guests': Shared Contexts, Inference, and Poetic Truth in Heaney's 'Album V' Wes Williams
7.'Look Again', 'Listen, Listen', 'Keep Looking': Emergent Properties and Sensorimotor Imagining in Mary Oliver's Poetry Kathryn Banks
8.The Lingering of the Literal in Some Poems of Emily Dickinson Timothy Chesters
9.Towards a Passing Theory of Literary Understanding Terence Cave
10.Relevance Theory and Literary Interpretation Deirdre Wilson
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Concepts and Terms