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Metaphor - [Gr.,=transfer], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which one class of things is referred to as if it belonged to another class. Whereas a simile states that A is like B, a metaphor states that A is B or substitutes B for A. Some metaphors are explicit, like Shakespeare's line from As You Like It: "All the world's a stage." A metaphor can also be





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    Metaphor: Implications and Applications » Read Now

    by Jeffery Scott Mio, Albert N. Katz. 269 pgs.

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    ...reviewing the literature on metaphors in politics in...suggestions in the literature. Examination...relation between metaphors and literal...there is not a literature that...
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    Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure » Read Now

    by Eva Feder Kittay. 358 pgs.

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    A detailed revision and refinement of the "semantic theory of metaphor," this book provides a comprehensive philosophical theory explicating metaphor's cognitive contribution. According to the author, metaphor effects a transference of meaning, not between two terms, but between two structured...
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    The Myth of Metaphor » Read Now

    by Colin Murry Turbayne. 224 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...speak" in paint or clay to "speak" in metaphor. Michelangelo, for example, used...only the second members involve metaphor. In the examples the two different...to the plain...
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    Metaphor and Symbol » Read Now

    by L. C. Knights, Basil Cottle. 150 pgs.

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    ...expression in literature. Metaphor and symbol...related to the metaphors, symbols...concerned with literature were invited...take part in the discussion...G. JAMES:...
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    Emotion, Metaphor, and the Creative Process, in Creativity Research Journal » Read Now

    by Todd I. Lubart, Isaac Getz. 17 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...creative metaphors was enhanced...studies in either science, literature, or economics...using these metaphors to propose...et al.s (in press) questionnaire...showed that...
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    The Language Poets Use (Chap. III "Metaphor" and Chap. IV "Metaphor and Poetic Structure") » Read Now

    by Winifred Nowottny. 228 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...III. Metaphor 49 IV. Metaphor and Poetic Structure 72 V. Language in Artificial Forms 99 VI...New Stylistics Applied to the Romance Literatures, 1900-1952 , University of...
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    Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor » Read Now

    by Wendy Barker. 218 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...darkness in literature. 4. Metaphor. I. Title...throughout Italian literature, Nicolas...observes that "in the choice of metaphors and images...tradition of literature by...
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    Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789 » Read Now

    by Jeffrey H. Richards. 340 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...of theater metaphor in Western literature -- and specifically...appears seldom in European literature. The Policraticus...theatrical metaphor. Given its...theater and play...
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    Metaphor and Religious Language » Read Now

    by Janet Martin Soskice. 198 pgs.

    Christian theology has suffered in modern times from an inability to explain its traditional reliance on metaphor to an audience intellectually formed by empiricism. The author argues that what is needed is not a more "literal" theology, but a better understanding of metaphor. Soskice offers here an...
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    Faulkner: Masks and Metaphors » Read Now

    by Lothar Honnighausen. 316 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    A critical study of the ruses & roles with which William Faulkner masked himself & his characters.
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    Moorings & Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's Literature » Read Now

    by Karla F. C. Holloway. 226 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Moorings Metaphors Figures...and Gender in Black Womens Literature Karla...Moorings and metaphors: figures...and gender in Black womens literature / Karla...12. Myth in...
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    The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel » Read Now

    by Sanford Pinsker. 202 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pinsker, Sanford. The schlemiel as metaphor: studies in Yiddish and American Jewish fiction/Sanford Pinsker...bibliographical references and...
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    Building the Text: Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France » Read Now

    by David Grant Cowling. 245 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France as in other European countries. The vogue for allegorical buildings was, however, more than a literary fashion: by deploying familiar metaphors of the building in new contexts, writers gained a powerful tool...

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