Metaphors of mind : an eighteenth-century dictionary / / Brad Pasanek

• Autore: Pasanek Brad <1974->
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (391 p.)
• Disciplina: 423.1
• Soggetto topico: Metaphor - History - 18th century; English language
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Animals -- Coinage -- Court -- Empire -- Fetters -- Impressions -- Inhabitants -- Metal -- Mirror -- Rooms -- Writing.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Metaphors of mind
• ISBN: 1-4214-1689-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797392403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II