Theory of Metaphor : Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny, Hardcover by Bogel, Fre...

by Fredric V. Bogel

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Theory of Metaphor : Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny, Hardcover by Bogel, Fredric V., ISBN 1032908408, ISBN-13 9781032908403, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny is a strikingly original analysis of metaphor. Scholarly and imaginative, this sophisticated theory builds on a simple definition: metaphors are not comparisons but statements of identity (A is B), statements simultaneously true and false. Bogel explores a broad range of literary theory and philosophy: from Aristotle to æZiæzek, Augustine to Wittgenstein, Richards to Ricoeur and Blumenberg. Th analyzes a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, including popular forms such as graveyard epitaphs, sermons, cartoons (Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury), and a haunting episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It extends the central concept of truth and falsity to the reader's encounter with metaphor, figural interpretation of scripture, entire poems as metaphors, the aesthetics of obliquity and textual impurity, and Freudian psychoanalysis--in particular, links between metaphor and the uncanny. This rigorously and eloquently argued book will be invaluable to students of metaphor across such fields as literary criticism and theory, philosophy, linguistics, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, and media studies. Its arguments are enriched by numerous concrete examples and analyses that bring theory to life and help to reach beyond an academic audience. Bogel's ground-breakin

• Publisher: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
• Year: 2025
• ISBN: 9781032908403
• Condition: Fine

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