Missing Link
The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2015
507 pages
978-0-7735-8196-8 (ISBN)
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A stunning meeting of the humanities and sciences, perceived in the metaphoric behaviours that pervade both.
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03/2015
McGill-Queen's University Press
€147.07
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Donaldson Jeffery:
Author of two previous collections, Waterglass and Once Out of Nature, Jeffery Donaldson teaches poetry, poetic theory, and problem-based learning at McMaster University.Jeffery Donaldson is professor of English at McMaster University and the author of five volumes of poetry, including Palilalia and Waterglass.
Author of two previous collections, Waterglass and Once Out of Nature, Jeffery Donaldson teaches poetry, poetic theory, and problem-based learning at McMaster University.Jeffery Donaldson is professor of English at McMaster University and the author of five volumes of poetry, including Palilalia and Waterglass.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One
- 1 "Combinatorial Algorithms"
- 2 "Peyne and Wo": Metaphor among the Discourses
- 3 Chemistry: Dualities that Enliven
- 4 DNA and the Three R's
- 5 Graceful Errors: The Mutation of Metaphor
- 6 Possibility Naturalized: The Story of Evolution
- Part Two
- 7 Metaphor and Cognition
- 8 A Word Aside: The Detour that Became a Thoroughfare
- 9 The Metaphor of Consciousness
- 10 Megaphors: The Seeing As Tool
- 11 Natural and Design Evolution in Culture
- 12 The Evolution of Literature
- 13 Spirit and Its Metaphoric Environment
- 14 "Til the Ductile Anchor Hold": The Allowing Conditions of Metaphor
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- I
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- K
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- M
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- P
- Q
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