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More Than Cool Reason: Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for More Than Cool Reason"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." -- Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University "In this bold and p...
Full description- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Published: 15 February 1989
- Format: Paperback 242 pages
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- Categories: Philosophy Of Language | Literary Theory | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
- ISBN 13: 9780226468129 ISBN 10: 0226468127
- Sales rank: 163,444
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Full description for More Than Cool Reason
"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." -- Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University "In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." -- Norman Holland, University of Florida
