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Publication details [#11950]
Publication type
Other
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press
ISBN
9780674430662
Abstract
The book focuses on metaphor, simile, metonym, and synecdoche. The Author sees metaphor as "prophetic", i.e. changing the perspective and the understanding of the world in the reader. The reflections are based on the reading of poetry from Thomas Aquinas to Wallace Stevens. The stress is on the creativity of metaphor. Some space is devoted to the question if metaphor can ever die.