No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...
Cristopher Hollingsworth has brought new meaning to “buzz” about books. His Poetics of the Hive: The Insect Metaphor in Literature (University of Iowa Press) mines literary versions of a primal act: ...
Professors from universities from Iran and Germany will discuss metaphor and imagination as central discussions to literature and philosophy. Aristotle believes metaphor as the greatest artistic means ...
In a paper read at the International SBL meetings in Vienna, 2007, I discussed the relationship between the literary and literal image. Taking metaphor as the most prominent trope of biblical imagery, ...
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15vwk4r.14 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv15vwk4r.14 Copy URL ...
Motorcycles provide an open road for literature — literally and figuratively. They're sometimes the dramatic device writers use to talk about many things: adventure, rebellion, even inner peace. But ...
There’s a pervasive Japanese archetype that spans centuries: the minimalist, searching for meaning by forsaking material attachments. From Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the most famous wandering poet, to ...
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