More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." — Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University "In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." — Norman Holland, University of Florida |
Contents
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The Power of Poetic Metaphor | 57 |
The Metaphoric Structure of a Single Poem | 140 |
The Great Chain of Being | 160 |
Conclusion | 214 |
Common terms and phrases
Achilles ACTIONS metaphor agent animals aspects attributes and behavior automatic basic conceptual metaphors basic metaphors Big thunder bounded space causal CHAIN METAPHOR CHANGER characterize cognitive commonplace knowledge complex conceive conceptual domains conventional language conventional metaphor conventionalized corresponds courage cultural model DEATH IS DEPARTURE Eve Sweetser EVENTS ARE ACTIONS everyday evoke example exhortation generic-level metaphor generic-level structure George Lakoff human image-mapping image-metaphor image-schemas light lines linguistic expressions lion Literal Meaning Theory lower-order Maxim of Quantity meta metaphorical conception metaphorical mappings metaphorical understanding metaphorically in terms metonymy millstone moon nature night nonmetaphoric Objectivist passage path person personification phor phorical physical plants poem poetry poets position properties proverb quatrain reading reaper refer role seen semantically autonomous sense sepal source domain SPECIFIC metaphor specific-level schema steeple stop for Death target domain thief things thou tion tional traditional understood in terms W. S. Merwin words youth