The poetics of time : metaphors and blends in language and literature

The poetics of time : metaphors and blends in language and literature / Anna Piata.

How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a "poetics of time"? This book embarks on this endeavor initiated by the assumption that verbal creativity can shed some new light on our understan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plata, Anna (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Series:Figurative Thought and Language Ser.
Subjects:
Space and time in language.
Metaphor.
Time in literature.
Greek language, Modern > Style.
metaphor.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Greek language, Modern > Style
Metaphor
Space and time in language
Time in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • TIme, cognition, and poetics
  • The conceptual structure of time in MG
  • Creative metaphors of time
  • Highly creative metaphors of time
  • Non-metaphorical figurative expressions of time
  • Time from metaphor and beyond?

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