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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Geary |
| ISBN: | 9780061710285 0061710288 |
| OCLC Number: | 690020507 |
| Description: | 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | Foreword : why I is an other -- Metaphor and thought : all shook up -- Metaphor and etymology : language is fossil poetry -- Metaphor and money : how high can a dead cat bounce? -- Metaphor and the mind : imagining an apple in someone's eye -- Metaphor and advertising : imaginary gardens with real toads in them -- Metaphor and the brain : bright sneezes and loud sunlight -- Metaphor and the body : anger is a heated fluid in a container -- Metaphor and politics : freedom fries and liberty cabbage -- Metaphor and pleasure : experience is a comb that nature gives to bald men -- Metaphor and children : how should one refer to the sky? -- Metaphor and science : the earth is like a rice pudding -- Metaphor and parables and proverbs : mighty darn good lies -- Metaphor and innovation : make it strange -- Metaphor and psychology : a little splash of color from my mother -- Backword : the logic of metaphor. |
| Other Titles: | Secret life of metaphor and how it shapes the way we see the world |
| Responsibility: | James Geary. |
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"In his fine new book, James Geary [shows that] metaphors are not rhetorical frills at the edge of how we think. They are at the very heart of it." -- David Brooks, New York Times "Smart fun for anyone fascinated by the play of language... Geary traces the history of [metaphor] from Aristotle to Elvis." -- Washington Post "The author further manages to weave together a fascinating amount of information... I Is an Other really shines when it focuses on the simple yet profound ... you'll never look at a metaphor the same way again--metaphorically speaking." -- New York Journal of Books "Geary ... succeeds in making the case that metaphor is the meat of language and not a sauce." -- Wall Street Journal "This book is a prism, refracting the white light of language into a kaleidoscopic celebration of its images and etymologies." -- Ben Schott, author of Schott's Original Miscellany and Schott's Almanacs "This book is for everyone interested in the subtle operations of language and thought...I is an Other is one of those 'must-read' books for this year, for any year. It deserves a wide audience, and it will find one." -- Jay Parini, Professor of English and Creative Writing, Middlebury College and author of Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America "Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner's wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Geary is no less astonishing...You'll scarf down every page of I Is an Other and then ask for more." -- Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Book by Book and Classics for Pleasure "Enchanting...It is [its] playful celebration of meanings that makes this book optimistic. And though the subtitle has a whiff of conspiracy about it, the sheer ubiquity of metaphor in everyday life makes the book feel urgent...addictive...Geary writes with clarity and power." -- The Independent "An illuminating study of metaphor in all its guises...Required reading for anyone with even a passing interest in language." -- Time Out London Read more...
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- Metaphor.
- Rhetoric and psychology.
- Thought and thinking.
- Language and languages.
- Literary style.
- Rhetoric -- Psychological aspects.
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