{"product_id":"emersons-metaphors-9781666901573","title":"Emerson's Metaphors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmerson'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Fossil Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Emerson’s Theory of Metaphor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: ‘A Golden Link’: Emerson’s Doctrine of Correspondence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: ‘Apposite Metaphors’: Analogy and Symbolism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Leaving me my Eyes: Nature’s Embodied Theory of Metaphor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Emerson’s Practice of Metaphor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Nature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Humankind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: God\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041995686231,"sku":"9781666901573","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666901573.jpg?v=1750952534","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/emersons-metaphors-9781666901573","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}