This book offers a new definition of metaphor—as an ontological
and visual construction, whose roots are external visual forms, and
its motivation is our attachment to forms. This definition, which
Michalle Gal names “visualist,” challenges the ruling
conceptualist theory of metaphors and places a new emphasis on how
we experience rather than understand metaphors. In doing so, she
responds to the visual turn that is taking place in literature and
the media, demanding that the visual become a site of philosophical
analysis. This focus on the external visual world allows Gal to
employ visual theories to capture the essence of metaphor. She
looks beyond conceptual or semantic mechanism, and returns to
theories of Arnheim and Gombrich and the current evolution of ideas
about the visual or material and embodied cognition. Proposing to
see visual metaphors in their basic form, she uses a new
externalist terminology of ontology, visuality, composition,
affordance, construction, and emergence. Setting out a new theory
that takes into account that humans are visual no less than
cognitive creatures, Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics lays the
foundation for a new vocabulary to talk about metaphors.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
Authors: |
Michalle Gal
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-32670-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-350-32670-4 |
Barcode: |
9781350326705 |
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