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Author Pasanek, Brad, 1974- author.

Title Metaphors of mind : an eighteenth-century dictionary / Brad Pasanek
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]
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Contents Animals -- Coinage -- Court -- Empire -- Fetters -- Impressions -- Inhabitants -- Metal -- Mirror -- Rooms -- Writing
Summary Brad Pasanek's unusual work is the written report of a massive digital humanities project that involved searching 18th-century texts for the many ways writers use metaphors to characterize the mind. The book takes a selection of broad metaphorical categories that the author discovered in his digital research - including animals, coinage, metal, rooms, and writing - and examines particular examples within each category. Pasanek also frames the "dictionary" elements of the project with a more theoretical discussion of what he calls "desultory reading," a form of "unsystematic perusal" of writing exemplified in the way we approach dictionaries. Pasanek not only argues that 18th-century thinkers largely employed desultory reading, but also that his work on this very project is itself an instance of this approach. The project succeeds twofold: in treating 18th-century writing as its topic and in exemplifying its approach. Pasanek maintains an accompanying website (https://metaphorized.com) that collects the results of his digital searches
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Metaphor -- History -- 18th century -- Dictionaries
English language -- Terms and phrases -- Dictionaries
REFERENCE -- Dictionaries.
English language
Metaphor
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Dictionaries
History
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421416892
1421416891
1421416891