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More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
by George Lakoff

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"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

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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)
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780226468129
Subtitle:
A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
With:
Turner, Mark
Author:
Turner, Mark
Author:
Lakoff, George
With:
Turner, Mark
Author:
Turner, Mark
Publisher:
University Of Chicago Press
Location:
Chicago :
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Linguistics
Subject:
Poetics
Subject:
Language and languages
Subject:
Metaphor
Subject:
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Subject:
LIT014000
Copyright:
1989
Edition Description:
Bibliography: p. 219-220.
Series Volume:
no. 679
Publication Date:
19890215
Binding:
Paper Text
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
237
Dimensions:
8.46x5.53x.60 in. .65 lbs.
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