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Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes (Hardcover)
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Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes (Hardcover)
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In Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes, veteran literary
scholar David Reid examines figures of speech, arguing that figures
of speech in prose and poetry, literature and talk, make sense as
turns of rhetoric by means of their energeia (vividness, radiance,
eclat). Reid analyzes figures from Homer to literary giants of the
twentieth century, mostly drawn from poetry, but also from prose
and colloquial turns of phrase. Making Sense of Metaphors will
delight all those who enjoy literature and good talk, and make them
think about what so takes their fancy. The book's case for the
centrality of energeia will also command the interest of
philosophers, linguists, and theorists of poetry, not least for the
objections it raises to some of their favorite lines of thought.
The book concludes with an examination of transference of agency,
an effect of many tropes. Although transference of agency reorders
our ideas, the argument of the book is that agency falls under the
rule of rhetoric, 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.
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