Metaphor is an accessible introduction to current thinking on metaphor, suitable for undergraduates and non-specialists. It explains key ideas on metaphor and supplies a coherent overview of the last twenty years of research and its effects on our understanding of language, culture, and mind. As with metaphor itself, its target market extends to cognitive science, theoretical and applied linguistics, English psychology, communications, literature, rhetoric and other areas.
This book is a much needed primer that will be indispensible as a classroom text and to the general reader.
Opening the door for beginners who seek a thorough grounding in the first arts of human understanding, this book explains the nature of logic, grammar, and rhetoric-the three of the seven liberal arts-and how they relate to one another. In Renaissance universities, the trivium (literally, the crossing of three part way) formed the essence of the liberal arts curriculum. Examined are topics such as the nature and function of language, distinguishing general grammar from special grammar, the study of logic and its relationship to grammar and rhetoric, and applying the concepts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric to literary works.
In Follow the Story, bestselling author and journalist James B. Stewart teaches you the techniques of compelling narrative writing. It is the indispensable guide to writing successful nonfiction books, articles, feature stories, or memoirs. Stewart provides concrete directions for conceiving, reporting, structuring, and writing nonfiction -- techniques that he has used in his own successful books and stories. By using examples from his own work, Stewart illustrates systematically a way of thinking about and executing stories, a method that has helped numerous reporters and Columbia students become better writers. Follow the Story examines in detail:
