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Figuratively speaking / by Robert Fogelin.
- Title
- Figuratively speaking / by Robert Fogelin.
- Author
- Fogelin, Robert J.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xii, 131 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- In this book, the author examines figures of speech that concern meaning--irony, hyperbole, understatement, similes, metaphors, and others--to show how they work and to explain their attraction. The author contends that figurative language derives its power from the insistence that the reader participate in the text, looking beyond the literal meaning of the figurative language to the meanings that are implied. He demonstrates that the intellectual and aesthetic force of figurative language is derived from the opportunity it provides for unlimited elaboration.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Figurative predications -- Figurative comparisons: the traditional view -- The standard criticisms of comparativism -- A dilemma for theories of metaphor -- A theory of figurative comparisons -- Elaborations.
- ISBN
- 9780199739998 (acid-free paper)
- 0199739994 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010013067
- OCLC
- 607083876
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library