Somatisations du paysage émotionnel : esthétique cognitive chez Amina Saïd

Abstract

This article proposes a contextualization of geocriticism studies within the framework of theoretical approaches on the abstraction process that take place in literary language. Methodologically contextualised within the frame of the studies on Cognitive Literary Theory the article argues that the study of emotions expression in landscape representations can help us to better understand the way in which human imagination works. In its analytical level, the study approaches the works Gisements de lumière (1998), and La Douleur des seuils (2002), by Amina Saïd (Tunis, 1953), in which the formalization of the landscape motivates a cognitive analysis of poetic language. Since literature has both axiological and biological values, this study explores the idea that emotions are involved in our abstract understanding of the world, while simultaneously considering a theoretical path for a Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature.