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Poetic Metaphor and Frames of Reference: With Examples from Eliot, Rilke, Mayakovsky, Mandelshtam, Pound, Creeley, Amichai, and the New York Times
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Metaphor is a curious case. On the one hand, there is an endless cross-disciplinary procession of theoretical books and papers on the subject as mentioned in this paper, and on the other hand, one wave peaked in the nineteen fifties and sixties, another has developed in recent years.Abstract:
Metaphor is a curious case. Perhaps it reflects the current state of poetics in relation to other fields of the humanities. On the one hand, there is an endless cross-disciplinary procession of theoretical books and papers on the subject. One wave peaked in the nineteen fifties and sixties, another has developed in recent years. Important contributions have been made to the clarification of the basicread more
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Linguistic metaphor identification in two extracts from novels
TL;DR: The authors examined two short fictional extracts from novels written in the 1990s (one from popular fiction and one from serious fiction), relating their detailed analyses to the general questions raised at the beginning of the article.
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The point of narratology
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The models of space, time and vision in V. Nabokov's fiction : narrative strategies and cultural frames
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of the observer and the point of view of a text is proposed, and the observer is the seat of a semiotic conflict between the text and the world.
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The Sea in the Hebrew Bible: Myth, Metaphor, and Muthos
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the variegated journey of the sea in the Hebrew Bible through the lens of myth, metaphor, and muthos, and use it as a metaphor for three events on the plane of history: the exodus, the Babylonian exile and the eschaton.
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Questions about metaphor in literature
Gerard J. Steen,Raymond W. Gibbs +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, questions about metaphor in literature are addressed. But their focus is on metaphor in the context of metaphor in English literature, not metaphor in metaphor in metaphorical language.
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Metaphor and Thought
TL;DR: Ortony as mentioned in this paper discusses metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor induction, induction, and social policy in the context of metaphor comprehension and metaphor understanding in science, education, and education.