Author: Roger White
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: metaphor, philosophical, theory, works, language, way, structure
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1996-06-13
List price: $73.95
ISBN-10: 0631168117
ISBN-13: 9780631168119

This volume provides a philosophical introduction to and analysis of the study of metaphor. By proceeding from the concrete analysis of complex metaphors, White is able to identify a range of features which are incompatible with standard accounts of the way words function in metaphor.

Authors:John A. Barnden, Mark G. Lee,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: metaphor, issue, symbol, double, special, artificial, intelligence
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0805897305
ISBN-13: 9780805897302

This special issue arose out of a symposium on metaphor and artificial intelligence in which the main orientation was computational models and psychological processing models of metaphorical understanding. The papers in this issue discuss: *implemented computational systems for handling different aspects of metaphor understanding; *how metaphor can be accommodated in accepted logical representational frameworks; *psychological processes involved in metaphor understanding; and *the cross-linguistic cognitive reality of conceptual metaphors.

Author: Sheldon Sack
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journal
Keywords: metaphor
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1979-09-15
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0226733343
ISBN-13: 9780226733340

On Metaphor, a collection of fourteen essays by eminent philosophers, literary critics, theologians, art historians, and psychologists, illustrates and explores a striking phenomenon in modern intellectual history: the transformation of metaphor from a specialized concern of rhetoricians and literary critics to a central concept in the study of human understanding. These lively and provocative essays probe the nature, function, and meaning of metaphor and collectively demonstrate the multidisciplinary implications of the concept. Because of its comprehensive scope, the volume is useful both as

Author: Andrew Ortony
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: thought, metaphor
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 1993-11-26
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521405610
ISBN-13: 9780521405614

Metaphor and Thought reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. Philosophers, psychologists, linguists, and educators raise serious questions about the viability of the traditional distinction between the literal and the metaphorical, discussing problems ranging from the definition of metaphor to its role in language acquistion, learning, scientific thinking, and the creation of social policy. In the second edition, the contributors have updated their original essays to reflect changes in their fields. The volume also includ

Author: Cynthia Ozick
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: memory, metaphor
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1991-09-03
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679734252
ISBN-13: 9780679734253

From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art’s contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them.

Author: John Hick
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Keywords: incarnate, god, metaphor
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0664255035
ISBN-13: 9780664255039

In this groundbreaking work, John Hick refutes the traditional Christian understanding of Jesus of Nazareth. According to Hick, Jesus did not teach what was to become the orthodox understanding of him: that he was God incarnate who became human to die for the sins of the world. Further, the traditional dogma of Jesus’ two natures—human and divine—cannot be explained satisfactorily, and worse, it has been used to justify great human evils. Thus, the divine incarnation, he explains, is best understood metaphorically. Nevertheless, he concludes that Christians can still understand Jesus as

Author: Sarah Kofman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: metaphor, nietzsche
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-12-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0804719756
ISBN-13: 9780804719759

This long-overdue translation brings to the English-speaking world the work that set the tone for the post-structuralist reading of Nietzsche.