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Emerson's Metaphors

Emerson's Metaphors

Greenham, David

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1666901571
ISBN13: 9781666901573
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 15 2023
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Emerson's Metaphors is a fundamental reinterpretation of the major American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson and an interdisciplinary intervention in literary criticism. This book draws on the methods and conclusions of the paradigm shifting Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which recognizes that metaphor is a cognitive form rather than a rhetorical or ornamental feature. Closely reading Emerson's journals, lectures and reassessing the major essays, Emerson's Metaphors demonstrates that Emerson's prose 'thinks' through its figurative language, enabling the vital symbolic reconceptualizations of nature, man and God that would prove so crucial for the emergence of American literature. This monograph does not just have implications for Emerson scholarship, but as the first full-length study of a canonical writer to use CMT, it provides a model for the interpretation of all literary works.

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