Processing French
A Psycholinguistic Perspective
1st Edition
Published in December 2006
224 pages
978-0-300-13295-3 (ISBN)
Description
A dark, quasi-detective novel, Cosmos follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man's attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life. Published in 1965, Cosmos is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run pension. But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the pension, then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament. Cosmos is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of Ferdydurke.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Haven
United States
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-300-13295-3 (9780300132953)
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05/2005
Yale University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One: Theories of Language Processing
- Two: Priming and Priming Studies
- Three: Priming with Inflected French Verbs
- Four: From French Rules to French Words
- Five: Syntactic Priming with French Nouns
- Six: Syntactic Priming with French Verbs
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
