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Item Details
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EMERSON'S ENGLISH TRAITS AND THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METAPHOR
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| By: |
David LaRocca |
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Hardback |
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£55.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1441193170 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781441193179 |
| Publisher: |
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION |
| Pub. date: |
21 November, 2013 |
| Pages: |
408 |
| Synopsis: |
Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to a blindness or blurry vision of metaphors; yet even when they are seen clearly, we are left to situate the ambiguities, conflations and contradictions they regularly present-logically, aesthetically and morally. David LaRocca's book serves as a set of 'reminders' of certain features of the natural history of our language-especially the tropes that permeate and define it. As part of his investigation, LaRocca turns to Ralph Waldo Emerson's only book on a single topic, English Traits (1856), which teems with genealogical and generative metaphors-blood, birth, plants, parents, family, names and race. In the first book-length study of English Traits in over half a century, LaRocca considers the presence of metaphors in Emerson's fertile text-a unique work in his expansive corpus, and one that is regularly overlooked.As metaphors are encountered in Emerson's book, and drawn from a long history of usage in work by others, a reader may realize (or remember) what is inherent and encoded in our language, but rarely seen: how metaphors circulate in speech and through texts to become the lifeblood of thought. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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