Missing link : the evolution of metaphor and the metaphor of evolution

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Missing link : the evolution of metaphor and the metaphor of evolution

Title remainder

the evolution of metaphor and the metaphor of evolution

Statement of responsibility

Jeffery Donaldson

Title variation

Evolution of metaphor and the metaphor of evolution

Creator

• Donaldson, Jeffery, 1960-

Author

• Donaldson, Jeffery, 1960-

Subject

• Humanities
• Humanities
• Literature and science
• Metaphor
• Cognitive science
• Psycholinguistics
• Science
• Science
• Science -- Social aspects
• Metaphor
• Evolution (Biology) -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

Unites literary criticism and evolutionary and cognitive science to show how metaphor has been with us since the beginning of time as a seed in the nature of things. With examples from centuries of poets, critics, philosophers, and scientists, he details how metaphor is a chemistry, an exchange of energies forming and dissolving, and an openness in the spaces between things. He considers the ways in which DNA learns how to liken things that have been, how mutation makes errors and then tries them on, and how evolution is hypothesis - nature's way of "thinking more." The mind is a matrix of relations: neural synapses cascade into ever-changing pathways and patterns. Metaphor is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It is the unbroken thread between matter and spirit. Whether offering analysis of a turn of phrase or chemical reaction, Missing Link presents a vision of literature that is also a vision of the cosmos, and vice versa.--Provided by publisher

Additional physical form

Issued also in electronic format.

Cataloging source

NLC

Dewey number

808/.032

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PN228.M4

LC item number

D65 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography