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1 online resource |
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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Print version record |
Subject |
Metaphor -- History -- 18th century -- Dictionaries
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English language -- Terms and phrases -- Dictionaries
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REFERENCE -- Dictionaries.
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English language
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Metaphor
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Genre/Form |
dictionaries.
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Dictionaries
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History
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionnaires.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781421416892 |
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1421416891 |
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1421416891 |
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