Death is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism

by Mark Turner

Book Overview

In this book, Mark Turner shows that the languages of literature and everyday life are different expressions of the same universal mechanisms of the mind. Drawing on the languages and metaphors of kinship and causation, and on myriad examples in English literature from Chaucer to Wallace Stevens, he argues convincingly that all our thinking with language depends on a restricted range of deep metaphors and inference patterns.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226817210
• ISBN13: 9780226817217
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"