The Poetics of Time - Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature [1 ed.] 9789027264664, 9789027209870

Ceramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature 1350354848, 9781350354845

This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial,

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Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy 9781501741326

Although the range is wide (philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of science) in this collection of essays, there is

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Language at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of Culture 9781501363658, 9781501363689, 9781501363672

Is poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with

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The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspire

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Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature 9780367193102, 9780429201653

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Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature 9780812202953

Homo Narrans explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell. Author John D. Niles ponders the

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Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature 9781479810628

Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a cri

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Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature 1479805556, 978-1479805556

Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a cri

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Metaphors of Multilingualism: Changing Attitudes towards Language Diversity in Literature, Linguistics and Philosophy [1 ed.] 1138607509, 9781138607507

Metaphors of Multilingualism explores changing attitudes towards multilingualism by focusing on shifts both in the choic

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History of the English language and literature

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