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Autore: | Pasanek Brad <1974-> |
Titolo: | Metaphors of mind : an eighteenth-century dictionary / / Brad Pasanek |
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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910461024503321 |
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