A Theory of Metaphor
Fredric V. Bogel, "A Theory of Metaphor"
English | ISBN: 1032909005 | 2025 | 118 pages | EPUB | 905 KB
English | ISBN: 1032909005 | 2025 | 118 pages | EPUB | 905 KB
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 Wittgenstein, Richards to Ricoeur and Blumenberg. The book analyzes a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, including popular forms such as graveyard epitaphs, sermons, cartoons (Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury), and a haunting episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It extends the central concept of truth and falsity to the reader's encounter with metaphor, figural interpretation of scripture, entire poems as metaphors, the aesthetics of obliquity and textual impurity, and Freudian psychoanalysis―in particular, links between metaphor and the uncanny.
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