More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor

George Lakoff · Marl Turner

Jul 2009 · University of Chicago Press

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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

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The school of cognitive linguistics is gaining ground since the last three decades. George Lakoff is one of the few who has done pioneering work in this field with his co-authors. In Metaphors We Live By he has formed a cognitive linguistic theory of metaphors. While giving an essence of the same in More Than Cool Reason he clearly brings out the creativity of poets giving examples. Both of these make a good reading and widen the horizons of understanding of readers.

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