David S. Danaher

Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Brown University, 1995
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
pes@mac.com
http://cokdybysme.net

Research Interests
Slavic languages and literatures; Russian; Czech

Current Projects
Ongoing research on the application of cognitive linguistics to literary analysis; book project tentatively entitled "Reading Havel"

Selected Publications
"Cognitive Poetics and Literariness: Metaphorical Analogy in Anna Karenina," in Perspectives on Slavic Literatures, ed. D. Danaher and K. van Heuckelom. Amsterdam: Pegasus, 2007, pp. 183-207.

The Semantics and Discourse Function of Habitual-Iterative Verbs in Contemporary Czech. Munich: Lincom, 2003.

"A Cognitive Approach to Metaphor in Prose: Truth and Falsehood in Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Il'ich," Poetics Today 42:3, 439-69.