Fredric V. Bogel

A Theory of Metaphor

Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781032908403
• ISBN-10: 1032908408
• Artikelnr.: 73527260

Autorenporträt

Fredric V. Bogel is Professor of English, emeritus, at Cornell University, USA. He is the author of New Formalist Criticism: Theory and Practice (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: A Theory of Metaphor
2. Processing Metaphor: Resistance and Interpretation
3. Metaphor and Biblical Interpretation
4. The Persistence of the Tenor: Falsity in Truth
5. The Decline of Literal Truth and Reference
6. Poems as Metaphors: To Truth through Fiction
7. The Double Transit of Metaphor: Metaphor and the Uncanny
8. Novelty and the End State of Metaphor: Uncanny Doubling
9. The Uncanny: Psychoanalytic and Metaphoric
10. Metaphor and Affect: The Uncanny, Paradox, Wonder, Religion
11. Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index