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Author Pasanek, Brad, 1974- author.

Title Metaphors of mind : an eighteenth-century dictionary / Brad Pasanek.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Animals -- Coinage -- Court -- Empire -- Fetters -- Impressions -- Inhabitants -- Metal -- Mirror -- Rooms -- Writing.
Summary Brad Pasanek's unusual work is the written report of a massive digital humanities project that involved searching 18th-century texts for the many ways writers use metaphors to characterize the mind. The book takes a selection of broad metaphorical categories that the author discovered in his digital research - including animals, coinage, metal, rooms, and writing - and examines particular examples within each category. Pasanek also frames the "dictionary" elements of the project with a more theoretical discussion of what he calls "desultory reading," a form of "unsystematic perusal" of writing exemplified in the way we approach dictionaries. Pasanek not only argues that 18th-century thinkers largely employed desultory reading, but also that his work on this very project is itself an instance of this approach. The project succeeds twofold: in treating 18th-century writing as its topic and in exemplifying its approach. Pasanek maintains an accompanying website (https://metaphorized.com) that collects the results of his digital searches.
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Subject Metaphor -- History -- 18th century -- Dictionaries.
Metaphor.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject English language -- Terms and phrases -- Dictionaries.
English language -- Terms and phrases.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Electronic books.
History.
Dictionaries.
Other Form: Print version: Pasanek, Brad, 1974- author. Metaphors of mind 9781421416885 (DLC) 2014035088 (OCoLC)892212890
ISBN 9781421416892 electronic book
1421416891 electronic book
9781421416885
1421416883
1421416891 (electronic)