Figures of a Changing World : Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture.
Berger, Harry.
Figures of a Changing World : Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (175 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Theory and Practice -- 1. Two Figures: (1) Metaphor -- 2. Two Figures: (2) Metonymy -- 3. Making Metaphors, Seeing Metonymies -- 4. Metonymy, Metaphor, and Perception: De Man and Nietzsche -- 5. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Redundancy -- 6. The Semiotics of Metaphor and Metonymy: Umberto Eco -- 7. Frost and Roses: The Disenchantment of a Reluctant Modernist -- Part II: History -- 8. Metaphor and the Anxiety of Fictiveness: St. Augustine -- 9. Metaphor and Metonymy in the Middle Ages: Aquinas and Dante -- 10. Sacramental Anxiety in the Late Middle Ages: Hugh of St. Victor, the Abbot Suger, and Dante -- 11. Ulysses as Modernist: From Metonymy to Metaphor in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Figures of a Changing World develops an account of culture change that is based on the distinction between the two rhetorical figures of metaphor and metonymy. These figures are applied both to the large-scale interpretation of tensions in culture change and to the micro-interpretation of tensions within particular texts.
9780823257492
Evolution.
Change.
Electronic books.
B818 -- .B474 2015eb
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Figures of a Changing World : Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (175 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Theory and Practice -- 1. Two Figures: (1) Metaphor -- 2. Two Figures: (2) Metonymy -- 3. Making Metaphors, Seeing Metonymies -- 4. Metonymy, Metaphor, and Perception: De Man and Nietzsche -- 5. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Redundancy -- 6. The Semiotics of Metaphor and Metonymy: Umberto Eco -- 7. Frost and Roses: The Disenchantment of a Reluctant Modernist -- Part II: History -- 8. Metaphor and the Anxiety of Fictiveness: St. Augustine -- 9. Metaphor and Metonymy in the Middle Ages: Aquinas and Dante -- 10. Sacramental Anxiety in the Late Middle Ages: Hugh of St. Victor, the Abbot Suger, and Dante -- 11. Ulysses as Modernist: From Metonymy to Metaphor in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Figures of a Changing World develops an account of culture change that is based on the distinction between the two rhetorical figures of metaphor and metonymy. These figures are applied both to the large-scale interpretation of tensions in culture change and to the micro-interpretation of tensions within particular texts.
9780823257492
Evolution.
Change.
Electronic books.
B818 -- .B474 2015eb
116