The Relevance of Metaphor Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney
This book considers metaphor as a communicative phenomenon in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney, in light of the relevance theory account of communication first developed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson in the 1980s. The first half of the book introduces relevance t...
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter1. Introduction: Communicating Metaphor
- Chapter 2. Relevance
- Chapter 3. Metaphor
- Chapter 4. The impossible metaphors: Inference in the poetry of Emily Dickinson
- Chapter 5. Things as they are: Implicature in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
- Chapter 6. Mutual Manifestness in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
- Chapter 7. Conclusion