特伦斯•卡夫（Terence Cave）是英国牛津大学的法国文学资深教授。

戴尔德丽•威尔逊（Deirdre Wilson）是英国语言学家、认知科学家，伦敦大学学院语言学名誉教授，主要研究方向为语用学和语言哲学，也是关联理论的创始人之一。

Contents

Note on Pronouns xxxi

Notes on Contributors xxxiii

Introduction 1

1. The Mind in Motion: A Cognitive Reading of W.B. Yeats’s ‘Long-legged FIy’ 23

2. Relevance Across History 37

3. Relevance Theory and Kinesic Analysis in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary 55

4. Relevance Theory and the Effect of Literature on Beliefs: The Example of Injun Joe in Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer 73

5. On the Borders of the Ostensive: Blushing in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth 93

6. ‘Invisible Guests’: Shared Contexts, Inference, and Poetic Truth in Heaney’s ‘Album V’ 111

7. ‘Look Again’, ‘Listen, Listen’, ‘Keep Looking’: Emergent Properties and Sensorimotor Imagining in Mary Oliver’s Poetry 129

8. The Lingering of the Literal in Some Poems of Emily Dickinson 149

9. Towards a Passing Theory of Literary Understanding 167

10. Relevance Theory and Literary Interpretation 185

Bibliography 205

Index of Names 217

Index of Concepts and Terms 219