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(Ebook) Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture by Harry Berger Jr. ISBN 9780823257485, 0823257487

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Authors:Harry Berger Jr.
Pages:176 pages.
Year:2015
Editon:1
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Language:english
File Size:1.15 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780823257485, 0823257487
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(Ebook) Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture by Harry Berger Jr. ISBN 9780823257485, 0823257487

Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction between two familiar rhetorical figures, metonymy and metaphor. The book treats metonymy as the basic organizing trope of traditional culture and metaphor as the basic organizing trope of modern culture. On the one hand, metonymies present themselves as analogies that articulate or reaffirm preexisting states of affairs. They are guarantors of facticity, a term that can be translated or defined as fact-like-ness. On the other hand, metaphors challenge the similarity they claim to establish, in order to feature departures from preexisting states of affairs.
On the basis of this distinction, the author argues that metaphor and metonymy can be used as instruments both for the large-scale interpretation of tensions in cultural change and for the micro-interpretation of tensions within particular texts. In addressing the functioning of the two terms, the author draws upon and critiques the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Roman Jakobson, Christian Metz, Paul Ricoeur, Umberto Eco, Edmund Leach, and Paul de Man.
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