The History of the Metaphor

[Mark Kohut]

Thank you for this.....kept me procrastinating the rest of the day........

>From it, I put together this: Extended metaphors in some writers, like TRP, tend 
toward thematic allegory.....

I missed only Aristpt;e's quote that metaphor-making is the sign of a writer's 
genius................



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From: Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com>
To: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
Cc: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 3:47:57 PM
Subject: The History of the Metaphor

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.



      
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