×


 x 

Shopping cart
17%OFFDenis Donoghue - Metaphor - 9780674430662 - V9780674430662
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Metaphor

€ 47.99
€ 39.84
You save € 8.15!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Metaphor Hardcover. Metaphor supposes that an ordinary word could have been used, but instead something unexpected appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich experience by bringing different associations to mind, by giving something a different life. The prophetic character of metaphor, Denis Donoghue says, changes the world by changing our sense of it. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.

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 unexpected, appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich the reader’s experience by bringing different associations to mind. The force of a good metaphor is to give something a different life, a new life. The essential character of metaphor, Donoghue says, is prophetic. Metaphors intend to change the world by changing our sense of it.... Read more

Show Less

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
392g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674430662
SKU
V9780674430662
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Denis Donoghue
Denis Donoghue has taught English, Irish, and American Literature at University College, Dublin; Cambridge University and King’s College, Cambridge; and New York University.

Reviews for Metaphor
For almost half a century Denis Donoghue has written stylish, weighty books, distinguished by the way they interweave an intricate sense of literary pleasure with an interest, no less intricate, in philosophical ideas… Now we have Metaphor, a characteristically intelligent and suggestive account, which reconsiders these grand philosophical tensions on the small stage of a figure of speech… Metaphor becomes ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Metaphor


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!