An approach to love from cognitive poetics in “The spoken portrait of the beast” by Eduardo Lizalde

Authors

  • Jovany Escareño Davalos Universidad de Guadalajara

Keywords:

love, animal, feelings, conceptual metaphor, portrait

Abstract

Love is a concept whose configuration is complex because it can be composed from a set of individual and cultural experiences and knowledge. Literature, and particularly the collection of poems “The spoken portrait of the beast” by Eduardo Lizalde (1985), is presented in this work as a means from which to give a possible reading to love through the conceptual and metaphorical analysis of the poems that makes up this text. Therefore, the objective of this article is to analyze the conceptual metaphors and concepts through which love is configured and understood. The methodology used follows the concepts and guidelines of cognitive poetics and the theory of metaphor, which allows for a reading vision of the text that links it with the culture from which it is produced.

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Published

2024-12-19

How to Cite

Escareño Davalos, J. (2024). An approach to love from cognitive poetics in “The spoken portrait of the beast” by Eduardo Lizalde. Argos Journal, 12(29), 114–141. Retrieved from https://revistaargos.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/argos/article/view/109

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 29 (2025): January-June

Section

Literary discussion

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