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Metaphor
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Denis Donoghue
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-22 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Metaphor supposes that an ordinary word could have been used, but instead something unexpected appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich experience by bring
Metaphor
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: David Punter
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and
X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Joseph J. Darowski
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-10 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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First appearing in 1963, The Uncanny X-Men had a rough start, lasting until 1970 when the comic book was canceled due to low sales. Following a relaunch in 1975
Metaphors We Live By
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: George Lakoff
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-19 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamenta
From Molecule to Metaphor
Language: en
Pages: 758
Authors: Jerome Feldman
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-25 - Publisher: MIT Press

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In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biol