Making sense of metaphors and other tropes /
"Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes argues that figures of speech in prose or poetry, literature or talk, make sense as turns of rhetoric by means of their energeia (vividness, radiance, éclat), a forceful expressing of an idea rather than a means of arriving at one, a process of speech...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington :
Academica Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | "Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes argues that figures of speech in prose or poetry, literature or talk, make sense as turns of rhetoric by means of their energeia (vividness, radiance, éclat), a forceful expressing of an idea rather than a means of arriving at one, a process of speech, not a fundamental shape of understanding or trick of mind"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 236 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781680532166 1680532162 |