More than Cool Reason (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: George Lakoff
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary theory
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Language or languages, Literature, Poetry or poets, Creative process, Poetics
Although this is a book about how poetic metaphor works, authors George Lakoff and Mark Turner argue that metaphor is not strictly for poets, nor is it merely a matter of words; it is rather the principal way human beings conceptualize, and thus deal with, abstract ideas such as life, death, and time. Metaphor is so universal, the authors claim, that we use the process unconsciously and automatically every day: It is indispensable to the way we think.
The study of metaphor is a dominant concern in modern literary theory, second only perhaps to the study of narrative. Literary...
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