Metaphor / / Denis Donoghue.

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 u...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Figure
  • After Aristotle
  • No Resemblance
  • “ It Ensures That Nothing Goes without a Name”
  • Not Quite against Metaphor
  • The Motive for Meta phor
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index