Presents multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research papers describing new developments in the field of cognitive poetics~Authors have diverse disciplinary backgrounds, but all of them embrace theories and research findings from multiple perspectives, such as linguistics, psychology, literary studies, music, art, neuroscience, and media studies~Explicitly discusses empirical and theoretical challenges in doing interdisciplinary work, which many believe is essential to future progress in cognitive poetics~Contributors include world-famous scholars of psychology, linguistics, and literature, including Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., Zoltan Kovecses, and Reuven Tsur