Figures Of A Changing World: Metaphor And The Emergence Of Modern Culture

Figures of a Changing World develops an account of culture change that is based on the distinction between the two rhetorical figures of metaphor and metonymy. These figures are applied both to the large-scale interpretation of tensions in culture change and to the micro-interpretation of tensions within particular texts.

• | Author: Harry Berger (Jr.)
• | Publisher: Fordham University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 02, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0823257479
• | ISBN-13: 9780823257478