Extreme Metaphors
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2012-09-27
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 0007467230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.
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Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities
Author: Shyam Wuppuluri
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-05-30
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 3030906884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this highly-interdisciplinary volume, we systematically study the role of metaphors and analogies in (mis)shaping our understanding of the world. Metaphors and Analogies occupy a prominent place in scientific discourses, as they do in literature, humanities and at the very level of our thinking itself. But when misused they can lead us astray, blinding our understanding inexorably. How can metaphors aid us in our understanding of the world? What role do they play in our scientific discourses and in humanities? How do they help us understand and skillfully deal with our complex socio-political scenarios? Where is the dividing line between their use and abuse? Join us as we explore some of these questions in this volume.
The Enigma of Metaphor
Author: Stefana Garello
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 3031568664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetaphor
Author: Simon Unwin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1351696262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. Metaphor is the most powerful component of the poetry of architecture. It has been a significant factor in architecture since the earliest periods of human history, when people were finding ways to give order and meaning to the world in which we live. It is arguable that architecture began with the realisation of metaphor in physical form, and that subsequent movements – from Greek to Gothic, Renaissance to Modern, Victorian to Vernacular... – have all been driven by the emergence or rediscovery of different metaphors by which architecture might be generated.
Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts
Author: Manuela Romano
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-05-06
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 3111001369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetaphor studies is a vibrant and fascinating field. The present book brings together the work of influential researchers analyzing metaphor empirically from Critical Socio-Cognitive perspectives (CSCDA). The case studies focus on the role of metaphor as a powerful strategy for the creation of specific world views and ideological frames, as well as for their contestation in current crises.
J. G. Ballard
Author: D. Harlan Wilson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2017-11-10
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0252050037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProphetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within SF itself.
Metaphor
Author: L. David Ritchie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-01-10
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1107022541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA summary, critique and comparison of the most important theories on how metaphors are used and understood, drawing on research from linguistics, psychology and other disciplines. Written in a non-technical style, the book includes clear definitions, examples, discussion questions and a glossary, making it ideal for graduate-level seminars.
Cultivating Arctic Landscapes
Author: David George Anderson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781571815743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues that link aboriginal people across the circumpolar North. One of the key aspects of the lives of circumpolar peoples, be they in Scandinavia, Alaska, Russia, or Canada, is their relationship to the wild animals that support them. Although divided for most of the 20th Century by various national trading blocks, and the Cold War, aboriginal people in each region share common stories about the various capitalist and socialist states that claimed control over their lands and animals. Now, aboriginal peoples throughout the region are reclaiming their rights. This volume is the first to give a well-rounded portrait of wildlife management, aboriginal rights, and politics in the circumpolar north. The book reveals unexpected continuities between socialist and capitalist ecological styles, as well as addressing the problems facing a new era of cultural exchanges between aboriginal peoples in each region.
Metaphorical Landscapes and the Theology of the Book of Job
Author: Johan de Joode
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-10-22
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9004388877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetaphorical Landscapes and the Theology of the Book of Job demonstrates how spatial metaphors play a crucial role in the theology of the book of Job. Themes as pivotal as trauma, ill-being, retribution, and divine character are conceptualized in terms of space; its imagery is thus dependent on spatial configurations, such as boundaries, distance, direction, containment, and contact. Not only are spatial metaphors ubiquitous in the book of Job—possibly the most frequent conceptual metaphors in the book—they are essential to its theological reasoning. Job’s spatial metaphors form a metaphorical landscape in which God’s character and his creation are challenged in unprecedented ways. In the theophany, God reacts to that landscape. This book introduces a pragmatic synthesis of both conceptual metaphor theory and spatial semantics and it demonstrates their exegetical and hermeneutic potential.
Language, Expressivity and Cognition
Author: Mikolaj Deckert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-01-26
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1350332887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding an up-to-date, multi-perspective and cross-linguistic account of the centrality of the expressive function in communication, this book explores the conceptualization of emotions in language and the high emotional 'temperature' of a variety of contemporary discourses. Adopting a number of methodological angles, both qualitative and quantitative, the chapters present insights from cognitive linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as those resulting from the combination of these approaches. Using a wide variety of data types, from song lyrics and TV series to Twitter posts and political speeches, and through the analysis of a range of languages, including Arabic, English, Polish, Italian, Hungarian, and Turkish, the book offers a panoramic view of the multi-faceted interaction between language, expressivity and cognition.
