On Metaphor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1979-09-15
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0226733343
ISBN-13: 9780226733340
On Metaphor, a collection of fourteen essays by eminent philosophers, literary critics, theologians, art historians, and psychologists, illustrates and explores a striking phenomenon in modern intellectual history: the transformation of metaphor from a specialized concern of rhetoricians and literary critics to a central concept in the study of human understanding. These lively and provocative essays probe the nature, function, and meaning of metaphor and collectively demonstrate the multidisciplinary implications of the concept. Because of its comprehensive scope, the volume is useful both as...