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Overview"Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile, metonym, and synecdoche. Metaphor (""a carrying or bearing across"") supposes that an ordinary word could have been used in a statement but hasn't been. Instead, something else, something unexpected, appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich the reader's experience by bringing different associations to mind. The force of a good metaphor is to give something a different life, a new life. The essential character of metaphor, Donoghue says, is prophetic. Metaphors intend to change the world by changing our sense of it. At the center of Donoghue's study is the idea that metaphor permits the greatest freedom in the use of language because it exempts language from the local duties of reference and denotation. Metaphors conspire with the mind in its enjoyment of freedom. Metaphor celebrates imaginative life par excellence, from Donoghue's musings on Aquinas' Latin hymns, interspersed with autobiographical reflection, to his agile and perceptive readings of Wallace Stevens. When Donoghue surveys the history of metaphor and resistance to it, going back to Aristotle and forward to George Lakoff, he is a sly, cogent, and persuasive companion. He also addresses the question of whether or not metaphors can ever truly die. Reflected on every page of Metaphor are the accumulated wisdom of decades of reading and a sheer love of language and life." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Denis DonoghuePublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.384kg ISBN: 9780674430662ISBN 10: 0674430662 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 22 April 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsCompelling [It] meanders gently from the charmingly personal to the keenly microscopic in its treatment of its (largely literary and philosophical) material A true readerly pleasure in Metaphor is the intense, tactile connection Donoghue strikes between himself and the text at hand This is the purpose of Metaphor to make us see how and why metaphor can revitalize our understanding not just of what we read but of how we read What [Donoghue] succeeds at doing is to force us to scrutinize with greater care, to convince us to bring a portion of ourselves to what we read, and to get us to think outside the (metaphorical) box to which our everyday associations has confined us. Making metaphor personal is the key to eliciting deeper reading.--Lianne Habinek Open Letters Monthly (08/01/2014) A wide-ranging, deeply learned account of the daring vivacities language can achieve from the man who wrote the book on eloquence.--Denise Gigante, author of Life: Organic Form and Romanticism Author InformationDenis Donoghue has taught English, Irish, and American Literature at University College, Dublin; Cambridge University and King’s College, Cambridge; and New York University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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