The Relevance of Metaphor: Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney 1st Edition Josie O’Donoghue

The Relevance of Metaphor: Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney 1st Edition Josie O’Donoghue – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030839536,9783030839543,3030839532,3030839540

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• ISBN 10: 3030839540
• ISBN 13: 9783030839543
• Author: Josie O’Donoghue

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 theory, situating it in relation to literary criticism, and then surveys the history of metaphor in literary studies and assesses relevance theory’s account of metaphor, including recent developments within the theory such as Robyn Carston’s notion of ‘the lingering of the literal’. The second half of the book considers the role of metaphor in the work of three nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets through the lens of three terms central to relevance theory: inference, implicature and mutual manifestness. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars working in literary studies, pragmatics and stylistics, as well as to relevance theorists.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Communicating Metaphor
Part I. Communicative Metaphor in Theory
2. Relevance
3. Metaphor
Part II. Communicative Metaphor in Practice
4. ‘The Impossible Metaphors’: Inference in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
5. ‘Things as They Are’: Implicature in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
6. ‘Poet as Conscience’: Mutual Manifestness in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
7. Conclusion

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