A Theory of Metaphor

A Theory of Metaphor: Truth, Falsity, and the Uncanny is a strikingly original analysis of metaphor. Scholarly and imaginative, this sophisticated theory builds on a simple definition: metaphors are not comparisons but statements of identity (A is B), statements simultaneously true and false.

Fredric V. Bogel is Professor of English, emeritus, at Cornell University, USA. He is the author of New Formalist Criticism: Theory and Practice (2013).

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: A Theory of Metaphor 2. Processing Metaphor: Resistance and Interpretation 3. Metaphor and Biblical Interpretation 4. The Persistence of the Tenor: Falsity in Truth 5. The Decline of Literal Truth and Reference 6. Poems as Metaphors: To Truth through Fiction 7. The Double Transit of Metaphor: Metaphor and the Uncanny 8. Novelty and the End State of Metaphor: Uncanny Doubling 9. The Uncanny: Psychoanalytic and Metaphoric 10. Metaphor and Affect: The Uncanny, Paradox, Wonder, Religion 11. Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index