In this Book
- Michael Osborn on Metaphor and Style
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
- Series: Rhetoric & Public Affairs
summary
This volume features two dimensions of Michael Osborn’s work with rhetorical metaphor. The first focuses on his early efforts to develop a conception of metaphor to advance the understanding of rhetoric, while the second concerns more recent efforts to apply this enriched conception in the analysis and criticism of significant rhetorical practice. The older emphasis features four of Osborn’s more prominent published essays, revealing the personal context in which they were generated, their strengths and shortcomings, and how they may have inspired the work of others. His more recent unpublished work analyzes patterns of metaphor in the major speeches of Demosthenes, the evolution of metaphors of illness and cure in speeches across several millennia, the exploitation of the birth-death-rebirth metaphor in Riefenstahl’s masterpiece of Nazi propaganda Triumph of the Will, and the contrasting forms of spatial imagery in the speeches of Edmund Burke and Barack Obama and what these contrasts may portend.
Table of Contents
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- Prologue: Loomings
- pp. xiii-xxvi
- Part 1. Concepts of Metaphor: Four Essays and How They Grew
- The Metaphor in Public Address
- pp. 3-44
- Toward Rhetorical Depiction
- pp. 135-154
- Rhetorical Depiction
- pp. 155-196
- Part 2. Metaphors in Action: New Horizons
- Lessons from Demosthenes
- pp. 203-232
- Epilogue: The Chase
- pp. 311-318
- Bibliographic Perspectives
- pp. 319-336
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609175689
Related ISBN(s)
9781611862874, 9781628953343, 9781628963342
MARC Record
OCLC
1034630556
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2018-05-08
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018