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Missing link the evolution of metaphor and the metaphor of evolution /

We look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link - metaphor - is always in front of us. In Missing Link, Jeffery Donaldson unites literary criticism and evolutionary and cognitive science to show how metaphor has been with us since the beginning of time as a s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Donaldson, Jeffery, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
Colección:desLibris. Books collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part One 1 Combinatorial Algorithms
  • 2 "Peyne and Wo" Metaphor among the Discourses
  • 3 Chemistry: Dualities that Enliven
  • 4 DNA and the Three R's
  • 5 Graceful Errors: The Mutation of Metaphor
  • 6 Possibility Naturalized: The Story of Evolution.
  • Part Two. 7 Metaphor and Cognition
  • 8 A Word Aside: The Detour that Became a Thoroughfare
  • 9 The Metaphor of Consciousness
  • 10 Megaphors: The Seeing As Tool
  • 11 Natural and Design Evolution in Culture
  • 12 The Evolution of Literature
  • 13 Spirit and Its Metaphoric Environment
  • 14 "Til the Ductile Anchor Hold": The Allowing Conditions of Metaphor.