The power of metaphor in the age of electronic media

et Cetera;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...THE POWER OF METAPHOR In the Age of Electronic Media ^ Theories of Metaphor A METAPHOR IS A TRANSFERENCE, naming one thing in terms of another, according to Aristotle's ancient definition (Poetics, 1954 ed., Ch. 20). It sounds so simple - and is...

Has metaphor collapsed?

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics;  September 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ......European analyses...Joy in the collapse of metaphor, which here in Europe we merely grieve over.[1] The collapse of metaphor! Why hadn't I heard about this before...found no discussion of the collapse of metaphor in them. I was stuck. How to find out...

THE POWER OF METAPHOR: In the Age of Electronic Media [+].

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics;  December 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...RAYMOND GOZZI, JR. [*] Theories of Metaphor A METAPHOR IS A TRANSFERENCE, naming one thing in terms of another...sounds so simple -- and is simple enough for people to use metaphors every day. Yet there seems to be no end to theorizing about...

Follow that metaphor: what faith, jazz & poetry have in common.

Commonweal;  November 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ......relationship between poetry--in particular, metaphor--and faith. Wood is unusually attentive to the spiritual workings of metaphor. Reading his collection of literary...extensive and brilliant is his own use of metaphor, and how haunted he is by the apparent...

The Metaphor of Scaffolding: Its Utility for the Field of Learning...

Journal of Learning Disabilities;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......have used the notion of scaffolding as a metaphor for the process by which adults (and...critical analysis of the scaffolding metaphor, with particular emphasis on its applications...origins and early applications of the metaphor are sketched. With this as background...

Modernism & metaphor in contemporary Arabic poetry.

World Literature Today;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the most important. The right use of metaphors is a sign of inborn talent and cannot...Aristotle, Poetics IN HIS SHORT ESSAY for the metaphor (isti`ara, literally borrowing ) entry...studies on the nature and function of metaphor in Arabic poetry: A history of metaphor...

Zhuangzi and the nature of metaphor.

Philosophy East and West;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......While it is well known that Zhuangzi uses metaphor extensively, there is much less appreciation...essay therefore investigates the role of metaphor in Zhuangzi's thought. At the same time...up with questions about the nature of metaphor. Comparisons will be made between what...

Working with Metaphor

American Journal of Psychotherapy;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......explores and affirms the importance of metaphor, in both conceptual and poetic thought...more aware of, and responsive to, the metaphors used by our clients. It continues by...model for working with client-generated metaphors, and concludes with a case example demonstrating...

Metaphor and Knowledge: The Challenges of Writing Science.(Book Reviews)

Technical Communication;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Metaphor and Knowledge: The Challenges of Writing Science Ken Baake...rhetoric of science has been wide and varied. Ken Baake's Metaphor and knowledge: The challenges of writing science, an ethnographic...the latest informative look at how and why the use of metaphor continues to be both rejected and valued ...

Men Are Grass: Bateson, Erickson, Utilization and Metaphor

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Abstract The relationship between metaphor and the practice of utilization in therapy...hypnosis can be seen as dependent on metaphor's role in structuring experience. The...and others is used to illustrate how metaphor functions. Bateson's comparison of two...

Metaphor in immunology.

Science News;  October 18, 1986 ;     700+ words ...Metaphor in Immunology Chemistry students are familiar with atoms that like to bond. Physics students...poles that repel or attract. Science education (and science writing, for that matter) depends on metaphor to illustrate complicateed concepts. Even metaphor's critics find the practice inescapable. Susan ...

The celibate bridegroom and his virginal brides: metaphor and the marriage...

Church History;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......dismissed as an egregious example of metaphor run riot, for paradox and reversal were staples of early Christian rhetoric; metaphor in particular, as Averil Cameron claims...heart of Christian language. (4) Yet metaphor is not merely an intratextual linguistic...

Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  October 1, 2003 ;     642 words ......BROWN, Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002...purpose in this book is to investigate the metaphors of the Psalter and their use in theological...his goal, B. selects certain "central metaphors" for the "organizing power" they wield...

The Metaphor of Slavery in the Writings of the Early Church: From the New...

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...I. A. H. COMBES, The Metaphor of Slavery in the Writings of the Early...University of Cambridge) that traces the metaphor of slavery from Paul to John Chrysostom, Combes asks whether the metaphor over time retained its NT "vitality and...

The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media

et Cetera;  January 1, 1999 ;     374 words ...Raymond Gozzi, Jr., The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media. Cresskill...Ithaca College and the editor of the "Metaphors in Action" feature in ETC, offers forty-fo...essays that deal with the subject of metaphor - a subject of vital interest to general...