Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.
Emerson's Metaphors is a fundamental reinterpretation of the major American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson and an interdisciplinary intervention in literary criticism. This book draws on the methods and conclusions of the paradigm shifting Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which recognizes that metaphor is a cognitive form rather than a rhetorical or ornamental feature. Closely reading Emerson's journals, lectures and reassessing the major essays, Emerson's Metaphors demonstrates that Emerson's prose 'thinks' through its figurative language, enabling the vital symbolic reconceptualizations of nature, man and God that would prove so crucial for the emergence of American literature. This monograph does not just have implications for Emerson scholarship, but as the first full-length study of a canonical writer to use CMT, it provides a model for the interpretation of all literary works.
David Greenham is professor of English literature at the University of the West of England, UK.
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Fossil PoetryPart 1: Emerson’s Theory of MetaphorChapter One: ‘A Golden Link’: Emerson’s Doctrine of CorrespondenceChapter Two: ‘Apposite Metaphors’: Analogy and SymbolismChapter Three: Leaving me my Eyes: Nature’s Embodied Theory of MetaphorPart 2: Emerson’s Practice of MetaphorChapter Four: NatureChapter Five: HumankindChapter Six: GodConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author
A compelling analysis of metaphor not just as a figure in the text of Emerson’s philosophy but as material to its very thinking and writing. Greenham delineates a generative, conceptual map for rereading Emerson’s mind at work in the metaphors on the page.
