Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Metaphor: A Study in the Psychology of Rhetoric
Such solutions as have hitherto been furnished these problems have been rooted in the philosophy of an earlier generation, now discredited. The purpose of this study is to explain metaphor in terms of the c'on temporary psychology. In so doing it has, perhaps, been inevitable that a new face should be put upon this figure. From a mechanical structure it has become a biologic organism. It has come to stand as the lin'guistic representative of a certain stage in the development of thought, and thus an expression perfectly natural and universal, rather than as a literary device, somewhat artificial and wholly unique, obedi ent to no laws save those empiric ones whose validity extends no farther than to itself.
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