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I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World
James Geary
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Description for I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World
Paperback. Takes readers from Aristotle's investigation of metaphor right up to the neuroscientific insights into how metaphor works in the brain. This title explores how a life without metaphor, as experienced by some people with autism spectrum disorders, significantly changes the way a person interacts with the world. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 256.
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! This is one of Shakespeare's most famous lines and one of the most well-known metaphors in literature. But metaphor is much more than a mere literary device employed by love-struck poets when they refer to their girlfriends as interstellar masses of incandescent gas. It is also intensely yet inconspicuously present in everything from ordinary conversation and commercial messaging to news reports and political speeches. Metaphor is at work in all fields of human endeavor, including economics, business, science, and psychology. In "I Is an Other", James Geary takes readers from Aristotle's ... Read more
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! This is one of Shakespeare's most famous lines and one of the most well-known metaphors in literature. But metaphor is much more than a mere literary device employed by love-struck poets when they refer to their girlfriends as interstellar masses of incandescent gas. It is also intensely yet inconspicuously present in everything from ordinary conversation and commercial messaging to news reports and political speeches. Metaphor is at work in all fields of human endeavor, including economics, business, science, and psychology. In "I Is an Other", James Geary takes readers from Aristotle's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061710292
SKU
V9780061710292
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About James Geary
James Geary is the author of Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists and the New York Times bestseller The World in a Phrase.
Reviews for I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more