Michael Osborn on Metaphor and Style

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This volume features two dimensions of Michael Osborn’s work with rhetorical metaphor. The first focuses on his early efforts to develop a conception of metaphor to advance the understanding of rhetoric, while the second concerns more recent efforts to apply this enriched conception in the analysis and criticism of significant rhetorical practice. The older emphasis features four of Osborn’s more prominent published essays, revealing the personal context in which they were generated, their strengths and shortcomings, and how they may have inspired the work of others. His more recent unpublished work analyzes patterns of metaphor in the major speeches of Demosthenes, the evolution of metaphors of illness and cure in speeches across several millennia, the exploitation of the birth-death-rebirth metaphor in Riefenstahl’s masterpiece of Nazi propaganda Triumph of the Will, and the contrasting forms of spatial imagery in the speeches of Edmund Burke and Barack Obama and what these contrasts may portend.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-07-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRhetoric & Public Affairs
Antal sidor384
FörlagMichigan State University Press
ISBN9781611862874

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Contents Preface Prologue: Loomings Part 1. Concepts of Metaphor: Four Essays and How They Grew The Metaphor in Public Address The Iowa Years and the Emerging Focus on Archetypal Metaphor Archetypal Metaphor in Rhetoric: The Light–Dark Family The Evolution of the Archetypal Sea in Rhetoric and Poetic Toward Rhetorical Depiction Rhetorical Depiction Part 2. Metaphors in Action: New Horizons Entr’acte Lessons from Demosthenes Progeny of Personification: Metaphors of Disease and Rebirth Space and Power: Vertical and Horizontal Orientations in a Rhetorical Universe Epilogue: The Chase Bibliographic Perspectives Index

“This text is an opportunity to explore Michael Osborn’s rich thinking, past and present, about rhetorical metaphor. I always wondered, why Memphis? Something mythic, I suspected. He settled there early on, it turns out, because ‘an educated Southerner . . . might do some good in that troubled land.’ There he undertook to live a moral life in troubled times. His writing about metaphor was embedded in that undertaking. He reveals motives for probing the subject deeply. This is a book to read for pleasure, insight, and inspiration.”— ROBERT IVIE, Professor Emeritus, Departments of American Studies and Communication and Culture, Indiana University