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Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking
Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer novel or poetic metaphors are alive. In the 1980s, new theories on the cognitive processes involved with the use of metaphor challenged these assumptions, but with little empirical support. Drawing on the latest research in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, and psychology, Cornelia Müller here unveils a new approach that refutes the rigid dead/alive dichotomy, offering in its place a more dynamic model: sleeping and waking. To build this model, Müller presents an overview of notions of metaphor from the classical perio...
A Happy Life
After retiring from a successful law practice, Silverman enrolled in graduate school and at age 74 received a master's degree.
A Dark Legacy
An artefact from the 1940s, sets investigative journalist Nathaniel Radcliffe on the hunt for a Nazi Officer who escaped Germany at the end of the war. His research takes him on a journey that forces him to confront his own true identity, while dark forces are moving against him and his family. Nathaniel, a retired British Army captain, with the help of his friend, David Hall must face down the threat to Germany and Europe from a conspiracy that was set in motion in 1944. Nathaniel's pursuit of the truth and efforts to protect his family takes him from Berlin to London, Paris, Buenos Aires and finally to Bariloche in Argentina where he must confront his own history.
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
