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# More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor

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"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." -- Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University "In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." -- Norman Holland, University of Florida

Review: Five Stars - A very clear straightforward exploration of language and metaphor.
Review: Why didn't I read this at Uni - should have and you should too. - Poems use metaphor, obviously, but is this in the same as we use metaphor everyday. The answer is perhaps surprisingly yes and surprisingly no. Poets can't just make it up, they are not humpty dumpty in Alice. They will use the eternal verities that are central to our language - e.g. love is fire or love is madness or time is an object "he disappeared into the night" BUT like the chess grand master using the same opening as a novice so with the poet, the grandmaster attempts to play "off book" to a move as yet undocumented, after a well known opening. So the poet will use a 'cliched' metaphor and then attempt make again something new. And this book describes this process in wonderful detail.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #901,453 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4,153 in Linguistics (Books) #15,740 in Literary Theory, History & Criticism #88,896 in Reference (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 52 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by A***R on 6 September 2016*

A very clear straightforward exploration of language and metaphor.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Why didn't I read this at Uni - should have and you should too.
*by A***R on 3 November 2016*

Poems use metaphor, obviously, but is this in the same as we use metaphor everyday. The answer is perhaps surprisingly yes and surprisingly no. Poets can't just make it up, they are not humpty dumpty in Alice. They will use the eternal verities that are central to our language - e.g. love is fire or love is madness or time is an object "he disappeared into the night" BUT like the chess grand master using the same opening as a novice so with the poet, the grandmaster attempts to play "off book" to a move as yet undocumented, after a well known opening. So the poet will use a 'cliched' metaphor and then attempt make again something new. And this book describes this process in wonderful detail.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wichtiges Buch
*by F***D on 25 May 2018*

Soweit ich sehe ist dies noch immer die einzige gut lesbare Studie, die sich der Frage nach dem Unterschied zwischen "conceptual metaphors" in der Alltagssprache und jenen in der Lyrik widmet und zu dem provokativen Schluss kommt, dass selbst die komplexesten Metaphern eines Shakespaere-Sonetts auf den selben "basic concepts" basieren wie die gebräuchlichsten Redensarten, das Origialität also, wenn überhaupt, nicht auf den konzeptuellen Ebene stattfindet, sondern lediglich in der Erweiterung und Akkumulation altbekannter "basic metaphors". Das einzige, was mich an dem Buch stört ist, dass die Abgrenzung gegen andere Metapherntheorien auf der Basis von summarischen Labels ("Literal Meaning Theory", "Dead metaphor theory", etc.) stattfindet und nicht in der Auseinandersetzung mit einzelnen Texten und Autoren, so dass man sich selbst zusammenreimen muss, wer oder was hier kritisiert wird, so dass die vermeintliche Allgemeinverständlichkeit und Lesbarkeit des Buches in ein etwas mühseliges Rätselspiel mündet.

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