The History of the Metaphor

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl
>
> Not sure whether you can listen to this outside of Britain, but for anyone
> who can access it and hasn't already done so this is a superb edition of In
> Our Time (one of the very best radio programmes in the English language, as
> far as I'm concerned) on the history of metaphor, how it developed from
> Homer through to Shakespeare, the 18the century repudiation of it as
> illusive and insubstantial, and the reinvention and revitalisation under
> Dickens and the modernists. Enjoy.
>