[PDF] An Analysis Of The Meaning Of Poetic Metaphor eBook

Author : George Lakoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226470989

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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

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134381670

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First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Carina Rasse
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027257736

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Poetry pushes metaphor to the limit. Consider how many different, dynamic, and interconnected dimensions (e.g., text, rhyme, rhythm, sound, and many more) a poem has, and how they all play a role in the ways (metaphorical) meaning is constructed. There is probably no other genre that relies so much on the creator’s ability to get his or her message across while, at the same time, leaving enough room for the interpreters to find out for themselves what a poem means to them, what emotions and feelings it evokes, and which experiences it conveys. This book uses interviews, questionnaires and think-aloud protocols to investigate the meanings and functions of metaphors from a poet’s perspective and to explore how readers interpret and engage with this poetry. Besides the theoretical contribution to the field of metaphor studies, this monograph presents numerous practical implications for a systematic exploration of metaphors in contemporary poetry and beyond.

Author : Anna Piata
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902726466X

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How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a “poetics of time”? This book embarks on this endeavor initiated by the assumption that verbal creativity can shed some new light on our understanding of time, challenging everyday linguistic patterns and manipulating mental representations in unforeseen ways. Drawing on empirical evidence from Modern Greek poetry, the book offers a unified account of time conceptualization along a continuum of various degrees of non-conventionality. It also shows, unlike what has been traditionally assumed in the literature, that creativity in the expression of time is not limited to metaphor but extends to other figurative tropes that are perhaps specific to poetry. Poetry thus transpires as an ideal testing frame for exploring temporal cognition and meaning construction alike.

Author : Camilla Di Biase-Dyson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027261490

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The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate whether ancient and modern texts and languages draw attention to figurative tropes in similar ways. In this way, the diachronic, multimodal and pluridisciplinary contributions to this volume critically review the theoretical frameworks underpinning metaphor marking and metaphor analysis from a completely new empirical basis.

Author : Elizabeth Cox Wright
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1512819433

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Peter Sharpe
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781575910802

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"The Ground of Our Beseeching: Metaphor and the Poetics of Meditation describes the signature styles of meditation in three American poets, and shows how each generated language out of spiritual yearning. The author's inquiry in this area grew out of an interest in the interplay of creativity, language, and religion, and a need to know, as both critic and practicing poet, how metaphor arises, particularly in the context of poetry which hearkens after the sacred. How far, in other words, has metaphor taken some of our central poets - T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Theodore Roethke - in matters of belief? No other critique of American poetry, prior to this study, has systematically linked the idea of the sacred with the practice of metaphor. Nor has a compelling case been made, until now, for viewing meditation, a style of thinking close to prayer, as the source or "ground" of these poets."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved