More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor

Lakoff, George and Mark Turner

ISBN 10: 0226468127 / ISBN 13: 9780226468129

Published by The University Of Chicago Press, Chicago London, 1989

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230 pp., xii. '2' in number line. Contents: 1) "Life, Death, and Time"; 2) "The Power of Poetic Metaphor"; 3) "The Metaphoric Structure of a Single Poem"; 4) "The Great Chain of Being"; Bibliography, pp. 219-220; Index of Metaphors, pp.221-223; Index of Topics, pp. 225-230. Glossy light gray-green with title and subtitle lettering in white letters over black background at top front cover, author names in black letters over gray-green background, above black and white photo-illustration on lower two-thirds front cover. Virtually As New: top right corner front cover slightly bumped and worn, with echoing in kind (diminishingly) through next six pages; two faint red stains on fore-edge (3/8" x 3/16" semicircular and 1/8" straight line) with no bleeding onto pages: describes worse than it is, but there you have it, else As New: Tight binding (NO cracks); corners still square; NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Solid copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
• Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press, Chicago London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226468127
• ISBN 13: 9780226468129
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

A classic account of how metaphor works in literature--and what we can draw from that for everyday life--from two of the leading scholars of language

We usually think of the language of poetry, the metaphors that poets use to express their intentions, as far removed from ordinary life. But in More than Cool Reason, George Lakoff and Mark Turner show how understanding how metaphor works in poetry, the tasks it takes on and the ways it shapes our patterns of thought, can be hugely helpful to seeing and understanding how we think in all manner of other fields and areas of life. Metaphor, they show, is a tool so familiar, so everyday, that we fail to notice it. Lakoff and Turner correct that failure here, helping us see how richly metaphorical our language and thought are, and what that means for not only reading and enjoying poetry and literature, but also for linguistics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, cognitive science, and more.

About the Author

George Lakoff is professor emeritus of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his discovery of the detailed workings of metaphorical thought and how it structures our understanding of the world. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Metaphors We Live By, also published by the University of Chicago Press.