Metaphor

David Punter

Taylor & Francis, Jun 30, 2007 - Literary Criticism - 158 pages

Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor. In this fascinating volume, David Punter: establishes the classical background of the term from its philosophical roots to the religious and political tradition of metaphor in the East relates metaphor to the public realms of culture and politics and the way in which these influence the literary examines metaphor in relation to literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies illustrates his argument with specific examples from western and eastern literature and poetry. This comprehensive and engaging book emphasizes the significance of metaphor to literary studies, as well as its relevance to cultural studies, linguistics and philosophy.

About the author

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has previously taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at Fudan University in Shanghai, among other institutions. His recent publications include" Postcolonial Imaginings" (2000), "Writing the Passions" (2000), "Gothic Pathologies" (1998), and "The Literature of Terror" (2 vols., 1996). He has also published four volumes of poetry.Glennis Byron is Reader in English Studies at the University of Stirling. She has also taught at the University of Alberta in Canada. Her previous publications include "Dramatic Monologue" (2003), "Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L" (1995), and "Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Poetry of Love" (1989).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Metaphor; The new critical idiom
• Author: David Punter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2007
• ISBN: 0203965884, 9780203965887
• Length: 158 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / General