"Based on a symposium, 'Metaphor: the conceptual leap,' sponsored by the University of Chicago Extension in February 1978. Most of this volume appeared previously in the autumn 1978 issue of Critical inquiry." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
How metaphors work: a reply to Donald Davidson / Max Black. The epistemology of metaphor / Paul de Man. -- What metaphors mean / Donald Davidson. -- Metaphor as rhetoric: the problem of evaluation / Wayne C. Booth. -- Metaphor and transcendence / Karsten Harries. -- Metaphor and religion: the test case of Christian texts / David Tracy. -- Art and life: a metaphoric relationship / Richard Shiff. -- The development of metaphoric competence: implications for humanistic disciplines / Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner. -- The metaphorical process as cognition, imagination, and feeling / Paul Ricoeur. -- Afterthoughts on metaphor. A postscript on metaphor / W. V. Quine ; Toward a psychology of metaphor / Don R. Swanson ; The many uses of metaphor / Karsten Harries ; Ten literal "theses" / Wayne C. Booth ; Metaphor as moonlighting / Nelson Goodman ; How metaphors work: a reply to Donald Davidson / Max Black.
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