Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture

by Harry Berger Jr.

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Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction between two familiar rhetorical figures, metonymy and metaphor. The book treats metonymy as the basic organizing trope of traditional culture and metaphor as the basic organizing trope of modern culture. On the one hand, metonymies present themselves as analogies that articulate or reaffirm preexisting states of affairs. They are guarantors...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823257487

ISBN13:9780823257485

Release Date:March 2015

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.7" x 8.8"

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