Figures of a Changing World : Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture.
This book 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....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bronx :
Fordham University Press,
2015.
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