Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes

"Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes argues that figures of speech in prose or poetry, literature or talk, make sense as turns of rhetoric by means of their energeia (vividness, radiance, éclat), a forceful expressing of an idea rather than a means of arriving at one, a process of speech, not a fundamental shape of understanding or trick of mind"--

Year

2019

Language

English

Publisher

Academica Press

Editions

1

Pages

236

ISBN

9781680532166

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