Metaphor and Writing

Figurative Thought in the Discourse of Written Communication

af Philip (Northern Illinois University) Eubanks

This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what writing is and what it should do. Original and informative, it gives scholars a fresh understanding of concepts such as 'voice', 'self', 'clarity', 'power', and the most basic figure of all: 'the writer'.