The Relevance of Metaphor: Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney

Author:   Josie O'Donoghue
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
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9783030839567


Pages:   294
Publication Date:   29 November 2022
Format:   Paperback
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The Relevance of Metaphor: Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney


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This book considers metaphor as a communicative phenomenon in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney, in light of the relevance theory account of communication first developed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson in the 1980s. The first half of the book introduces relevance theory, situating it in relation to literary criticism, and then surveys the history of metaphor in literary studies and assesses relevance theory’s account of metaphor, including recent developments within the theory such as Robyn Carston’s notion of ‘the lingering of the literal’. The second half of the book considers the role of metaphor in the work of three nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets through the lens of three terms central to relevance theory: inference, implicature and mutual manifestness. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars working in literary studies, pragmatics and stylistics, as well as to relevance theorists.

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Author:   Josie O'Donoghue
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9783030839567


ISBN 10:   3030839567
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   29 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter1. Introduction: Communicating Metaphor.- Chapter 2. Relevance.- Chapter 3. Metaphor.- Chapter 4. The impossible metaphors: Inference in the poetry of Emily Dickinson.- Chapter 5. Things as they are: Implicature in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop.- Chapter 6. Mutual Manifestness in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.- Chapter 7. Conclusion 

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Josie O’Donoghue is a Research Fellow in English at Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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