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More copies of this ISBN:More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphorby George Lakoff
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University "In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." Norman Holland, University of Florida Book News Annotation:Metaphor is not merely a decorative aspect of poetic language; it is
a mode of everyday thought that allows us to comprehend one
conceptual domain in terms of another. With great clarity, Lakoff
(linguistics, U. of California, Berkeley) and Turner (English,
Chicago) explain how poems rely upon and extend the basic metaphors
by which we make sense of the world. The paper edition is available
($11.95, 46812-7). Lakoff (linguistics, University of California,
Berkeley) and Turner, (English, University of Chicago) survey the
most common general metaphors of life, death, and time in the Western
tradition and how the mechanism of personification works in these
metaphors. The core of the book is an extended metaphorical analysis
of a single poem, William Carlos Williams's
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Table of Contentsconversion in progress
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