The tropes, together with the sequences, represent the main creative activity of European musicians in the nineth, tenth, and eleventh centuries. This volume provides an introduction to the study of tropes in the form of an extensive anthology of major studies and a comprehensiv…
Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western "islomania"-our obsession with islands - from its origins in Daniel Defoe's…
In this updated edition of his brief, engaging book, Robert J. Fogelin examines figures of speech that concern meaning - irony, hyperbole, understatement, similes, metaphors, and others - to show how they work and to explain their attraction.
In this book, the author examines figures of speech that concern meaning--irony, hyperbole, understatement, similes, metaphors, and others--to show how they work and to explain their attraction. The author contends that figurative language derives its power from the insistence t…
This book articulates and defends Fregean realism, a theory of properties based on Frege's insight that properties are not objects, but rather the satisfaction conditions of predicates. Robert Trueman argues that this approach is the key not only to dissolving a host of longstan…
Seit Menschen in größeren Gruppen zusammenleben, werden sie in ihrem Verhalten von denen beeinflusst, die besonders wirkungsvoll zu ihnen sprechen können. Die politische Rhetorik ist daher so alt wie die Politik und steht in enger Korrelation zu den epochalen Denkweisen, Sozialf…
