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Metaphor /

Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile, metonym, and synecdoche. Metaphor ("a carrying or bearing across") supposes that an ordinary word could have been used in a statement but hasn't been. Instead, something else, something u...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Donoghue, Denis (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Figure
  • After Aristotle
  • No resemblance
  • "It ensures that nothing goes without a name"
  • Not quite against metaphor
  • The motive for metaphor.