Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor by Skulsky, Harold

Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820338583)

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Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor by Skulsky, Harold

Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor

$36.95
Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor by Skulsky, Harold

Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor

$36.95
Format: Paperback
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A searching contribution to the study of what gurative language is and how it works, this book is a guide to the sophisticated and powerful artistry of the seventeenth-century English poets who have come to be known by the misleading name of "Metaphysicals." Harold Skulsky argues that "Metaphorists" is the more apt label. After exploring the dramatic and transactional theory of figurative language that these poets owe to the traditions they share, Skulsky gives close and carefully argued readings of their major poems. We watch metaphor being enacted rather than made in a high-stakes game of cue and response between writer and reader, a game sustained by a network of mutual understandings. In effect, Skulsky provides a reader-friendly manual of the skills we need to be players.

Author: Harold Skulsky
ISBN-10: 0820338583
ISBN-13: 9780820338583
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2012
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d
By Harold Skulsky
By Harold Skulsky
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Harold Skulsky is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at Smith College, and is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. His works include "Spirits Finely Touched: The Testing of Value and Integrity in Four Shakespearean Plays" and "Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor" (both Georgia), as well as "Metamorphosis: The Mind in Exile," "Milton and the Death of Man: Humanism on Trial in Paradise Lost," and "Staring into the Void: Spinoza the Master of Nihilism."

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