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Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor (Paperback, New)
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Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor (Paperback, New)
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Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go
largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to a blindness or
blurry vision of metaphors; yet even when they are seen clearly, we
are left to situate the ambiguities, conflations and contradictions
they regularly present-logically, aesthetically and morally. David
LaRocca's book serves as a set of 'reminders' of certain features
of the natural history of our language-especially the tropes that
permeate and define it. As part of his investigation, LaRocca turns
to Ralph Waldo Emerson's only book on a single topic, English
Traits (1856), which teems with genealogical and generative
metaphors-blood, birth, plants, parents, family, names and race. In
the first book-length study of English Traits in over half a
century, LaRocca considers the presence of metaphors in Emerson's
fertile text-a unique work in his expansive corpus, and one that is
regularly overlooked. As metaphors are encountered in Emerson's
book, and drawn from a long history of usage in work by others, a
reader may realize (or remember) what is inherent and encoded in
our language, but rarely seen: how metaphors circulate in speech
and through texts to become the lifeblood of thought.
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