I is an other : the secret life of metaphor and how it shapes the way we see the world /: the secret life of metaphor and how it shapes the way we see the world. (2011)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- I is an other : the secret life of metaphor and how it shapes the way we see the world /: the secret life of metaphor and how it shapes the way we see the world. (2011)
- Main Title:
- I is an other : the secret life of metaphor and how it shapes the way we see the world
- Further Information:
- Note: James Geary.
- Other Names:
- Geary, James, 1962-
- Contents:
- Foreword : why I is an other -- Metaphor and thought : all shook up -- Metaphor and etymology : language is fossil poetry -- Metaphor and money : how high can a dead cat bounce? -- Metaphor and the mind : imagining an apple in someone's eye -- Metaphor and advertising : imaginary gardens with real toads in them -- Metaphor and the brain : bright sneezes and loud sunlight -- Metaphor and the body : anger is a heated fluid in a container -- Metaphor and politics : freedom fries and liberty cabbage -- Metaphor and pleasure : experience is a comb that nature gives to bald men -- Metaphor and children : how should one refer to the sky? -- Metaphor and science : the earth is like a rice pudding -- Metaphor and parables and proverbs : mighty darn good lies -- Metaphor and innovation : make it strange -- Metaphor and psychology : a little splash of color from my mother -- Backword : the logic of metaphor.
- Publisher Details:
- New York : HarperCollins
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (296 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 428.1
Metaphor
Rhetoric and psychology
Thought and thinking
Language and languages
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Language and languages
Metaphor
Rhetoric and psychology
Thought and thinking
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780062041777
0062041770 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780061710285
0061710288 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.380308
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