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Publication details [#1962]
Caraher, Brian G. 1981. Metaphor as contradiction: A grammar and epistemology of poetic metaphor. Philosophy and Rhetoric 14 (2) : 69–88.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
Metaphor is said to be grounded in the process of contradiction and to thereby offer its own activity as its necessary and sufficient origin. The claim is supported by a distinction between aesthetic and deconstructive irony.