Theory of Metaphor
A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny is a strikingly original analysis of metaphor. Scholarly and imaginative, this sophisticated theory builds on a simple definition: metaphors are not comparisons but statements of identity (A is B), statements simultaneously true and false.
Bogel explores a broad range of literary theory and philosophy: from Aristotle to Žižek, Augustine to Wittg...
A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny is a strikingly original analysis of metaphor. Scholarly and imaginative, this sophisticated theory builds on a simple definition: metaphors are not comparisons but statements of identity (A is B), statements simultaneously true and false.
Bogel explores a broad range of literary theory and philosophy: from Aristotle to Žižek, Augustine to Wittg...
