02794nam 2200553 450 991079739240332120230807220003.01-4214-1689-1(CKB)3710000000434710(EBL)4398465(SSID)ssj0001526298(PQKBManifestationID)11953340(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001526298(PQKBWorkID)11505980(PQKB)10474597(MiAaPQ)EBC4398465(OCoLC)911387518(MdBmJHUP)muse42636(Au-PeEL)EBL4398465(CaPaEBR)ebr11161182(EXLCZ)99371000000043471020160303h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMetaphors of mind an eighteenth-century dictionary /Brad PasanekBaltimore, Maryland :Johns Hopkins University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (391 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4214-1688-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Animals -- Coinage -- Court -- Empire -- Fetters -- Impressions -- Inhabitants -- Metal -- Mirror -- Rooms -- Writing.Brad Pasanek's unusual work is the written report of a massive digital humanities project that involved searching 18th-century texts for the many ways writers use metaphors to characterize the mind. The book takes a selection of broad metaphorical categories that the author discovered in his digital research - including animals, coinage, metal, rooms, and writing - and examines particular examples within each category. Pasanek also frames the "dictionary" elements of the project with a more theoretical discussion of what he calls "desultory reading," a form of "unsystematic perusal" of writing exemplified in the way we approach dictionaries. Pasanek not only argues that 18th-century thinkers largely employed desultory reading, but also that his work on this very project is itself an instance of this approach. The project succeeds twofold: in treating 18th-century writing as its topic and in exemplifying its approach. Pasanek maintains an accompanying website (https://metaphorized.com) that collects the results of his digital searches.MetaphorHistory18th centuryDictionariesEnglish languageTerms and phrasesDictionariesMetaphorHistoryEnglish language423.1Pasanek Brad1974-1493296MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797392403321Metaphors of mind3716196UNINA