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Metaphors We Read by: Rethinking Literary Experience and Interpretation

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Availability:In StockContributor:Lucas ThompsonPublish date:11/30/2025Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399546188ISBN-10:139954618XUPC:9781399546188Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Semiotics & Theory, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCKTANGWTY

Metaphors We Read by: Rethinking Literary Experience and Interpretation

Metaphors We Read By proposes a metaphorical approach to reading that offers new ways of understanding literary experience and interpretation. It shows how a certain set of metaphors relating to depth and distance have dominated literary studies for many decades, before offering alternative ways of understanding what it means to read and interpret fiction. Taking up recent calls to experiment...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399546188ISBN-10:139954618XUPC:9781399546188Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Semiotics & Theory, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCKTANGWTY
Thompson, Lucas: - Lucas Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in English & Writing at the University of Sydney. He teaches and writes on contemporary US and Anglophone literature, ordinary language philosophy, literary aesthetics, and film and television. He is the author of Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature (2016), along with a wide range of journal articles, chapters in...
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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