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Figures of a Changing World : Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (175 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823257492
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Figures of a Changing WorldDDC classification:
  • 116
LOC classification:
  • B818 -- .B474 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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