Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture

by Harry Berger Jr.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823257487
• ISBN13: 9780823257485
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.8"