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Figures of a Changing World : Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture /
Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction between two familiar rhetorical figures, metonymy and metaphor. The book treats metonymy as the basic organizing trope of traditional culture and metaphor as the basic organizing trope o...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Dante11. 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.