The rule of metaphor : multi-disciplinary studies of the creation of meaning in language / Paul Ricoeur ; translated by Robert Czerny ; with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ricœur, Paul, author.

Contributor:

Czerny, Robert, translator.

McLaughlin, Kathleen, translator.

Costello, John, translator.

Series:

Canadian university paperbooks ; 270.

University of Toronto romance series ; 37

Canadian university paperbooks ; 270

University of Toronto romance series, 0082-5336 ; 37

Standardized Title:

Métaphore vive. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st paperback ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in English in 1978, this full-scale examination of the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, brings together and discusses significant viewpoints on metaphor held by writers in various disciplines. These include linguistics and semantics, the philosophy of language, literary criticism, and aesthetics.

Contents:

""6 Forced metaphor and newly invented metaphor""""STUDY 3 / METAPHOR AND THE SEMANTICS OF DISCOURSE""; ""1 The debate between semantics and semiotics""; ""2 Semantics and rhetoric of metaphor""; ""3 Logical grammar and semantics""; ""4 Literary criticism and semantics""; ""STUDY 4 / METAPHOR AND THE SEMANTICS OF THE WORD""; ""1 Monism of the sign and primacy of the word""; ""2 Logic and linguistics of denomination""; ""3 Metaphor as 'change of meaning'""; ""4 Metaphor and the Saussurean postulates""; ""5 Between sentence and word: the interplay of meaning""

""STUDY 5 / METAPHOR AND THE NEW RHETORIC""""1 Deviation and rhetoric degree zero""; ""2 The space of the figure""; ""3 Deviation and reduction of deviation""; ""4 The functioning of figures: 'semic' analysis""; ""STUDY 6 / THE WORK OF RESEMBLANCE""; ""1 Substitution and resemblance""; ""2 The 'iconic' moment of metaphor""; ""3 The case against resemblance""; ""4 In defence of resemblance""; ""5 Psycholingustics of metaphor""; ""6 Icon and image""; ""STUDY 7 / METAPHOR AND REFERENCE""; ""1 The postulates of reference""; ""2 The case against reference""

""3 A generalized theory of denotation""""4 Model and metaphor""; ""5 Towards the concept of 'metaphorical truth'""; ""STUDY 8 / METAPHOR AND PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE""; ""1 Metaphor and the equivocalness of being: Aristotle""; ""2 Metaphor and analogia entis: onto-theology""; ""3 Meta-phor and meta-physics""; ""4 The intersection of spheres of discourse""; ""5 Ontological clarification of the postulate of reference""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Works cited""; ""Index of authors""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""Q""

""R""""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Translation of: La métaphore vive.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612040016

9781282040014

1282040014

9781442682269

1442682264

OCLC:

1511484147