More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor / Edition 1

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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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.com
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780226468129
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date: 2/15/1989
  • Edition description: 1
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 230
  • Sales rank: 629,263
  • Product dimensions: 5.53 (w) x 8.46 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface
1. Life, Death, and Time
2. The Power of Poetic Metaphor
3. The Metaphoric Structure of a Single Poem
4. The Great Chain of Being Conclusion More on Traditional Views Bibliography Indexes
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  • Posted October 22, 2011

    The coolest book I've ever read!

    Buy this book! You'll be glad you did.

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