Reuven Tsur
Israeli academic
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Reuven Tsur's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics Tel Aviv University
- Masters Linguistics Tel Aviv University
- Bachelors Linguistics Tel Aviv University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Reuven Tsur was professor emeritus of Hebrew literature and literary theory at Tel Aviv University. He was born in Oradea , Romania his mother tongue was Hungarian. Literary scholarship In his doctoral dissertation Tsur developed an approach which he later called "Cognitive Poetics". This is an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary theory, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy. It explores the relationship between the structure of the text and the human qualities perceived in it, and the mediating processes that take place in the reader's mind. He applied Cognitive Poetics to rhyme, sound symbolism, poetic rhythm, metaphor, poetry and altered states of consciousness, period style, genre, archetypal patterns, translation theory, the implied critic's decision style, critical competence and literary history. In his books and articles he applied his theories to English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, and Hebrew poetry, ranging from the Bible, through the eleventh, sixteenth and seventeenth century, to the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century.
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