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Fire metaphors : discourses of awe and authority / Jonathan Charteris-Black.
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Charteris-Black, Jonathan, 1955-
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Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Description
238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
P301.5.M48 C4855 2017
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Metaphor
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Fire
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Symbolic aspects
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Fire
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Religious aspects
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Political aspects
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Discourse analysis
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Summary note
This detailed study of fire metaphors provides a deep understanding of the purposeful work of metaphor in discourse. It analyses how and why fire metaphors are used in discourses of awe (mythology and religion) and authority (political speeches and media reports). Fire serves as a productive and salient lexical field for metaphors that seek to create awe and impose authority. These metaphors offer a rich linguistic and conceptual resource for authors of mythologies, theologies, literature, speeches and journalism, and provide insight into the rich interplay of thought, language and culture. This book explores the purpose of fire metaphors in genres ranging from the Norse sagas to religious texts, from Shakespeare to British and American political speeches. Ultimately it arrives at an understanding of the rhetorical work that metaphor accomplishes in communicating evaluations and ideologies.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232) and indexes.
Contents
Part I. Fire in culture, language and thought
The meaning of fire
Investigating fire metaphors
Fire, emotion and cognition
Part II. Fire in religious discourse
Fire in the Abrahamic religions
Fire in Zoroastrianism
Fire in Hinduism
Part III. Fire in political discourse
Fire and authority in sixteenth-century England: Foxe's book of martyrs
Fire metaphors in British political rhetoric
Fire metaphors in American political rhetoric
Fire metaphors in visual media: British political cartoons.
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ISBN
9781472532541 ((hardcover))
1472532546 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2017287469
OCLC
963734980
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