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Figures of Thought for College Writers de Dona J. Hickey

Figures of Thought for College Writers

Autor Dona J. Hickey
en Limba Engleză Paperback
When students use the term cool (ad nauseam), they may not be aware that it represents metaphorical thinking. In this collection of essays, 62 professional and seven student authors, Hickey explains how metaphors shape cognition and language, its principles, and role in academic discourse.
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ISBN-13: 9781559346528
ISBN-10: 1559346523
Pagini: 659
Dimensiuni: 166 x 233 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Editura: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua

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Preface 1. WHAT IS A FIGURE OF THOUGHT? Introduction to Metaphor / What Is Metaphor? / Metaphor Awareness Is Language Awareness / Metaphor and College Reading and Writing / Familiar Categories of Metaphor / How Metaphor Structures Ordinary Thought and Language / What Does Seeing and Understanding Metaphor Have to Do with Reading and Writing? / Its a Story: Metaphor in Academic Discourse / How to Read for Metaphor: The Principles Modeled / Marjorie Rosens New Face, New Body, New Self / A Practice Reading: Applying the Principles Yourself / Robert J. Sternberg, Love Is a Story / 2. A WRITING LIFE James D. Houston, A Writers Sense of Place / Natalie Goldberg, Composting / David Huddle, The Writing Habit / Peter Elbow, How to Get Power through Voice / Bonnie Friedman, Anorexia of Language: Why We Cant Write / Annie Lamott, Shitty First Drafts / Natalie Rachel Singer, Nonfiction in First Person, Without Apology / Alan Cheuse, Writing It Down For James: Some Thoughts on Reading Towards the Millennium / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / 3. NAMING AND CLAIMING / Kip Thorne, Black Hole Birth John Boslaugh, Black Hole Encounter / Chet Raymo, The Ink of Night / Richard Conniff, Whats in a Name? Sometimes More Than Meets the Eye / Reg Saner, Naming Nature / Louise Erdrich, Birth / Itabari Njeri, Whats in a Name? / Ursula Le Guin, The Rule of Names / Khuankaew Anantachart, Pee Tong LuengVictims of the Name [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / 4. ILLNESS AND HEALTH Sharon Begley et al., Commandos of Viral Combat / Richard Preston, Back in the Hot Zone / Paul Farmer and Arthur Keinman, AIDS as Human Suffering / Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors / Marjorie Gross, Cancer Becomes Me / Marsha Norman, Say Amen to Somebody / Kat Duff, Towards an Ecology of Illness / Kay Redfield Jamison, Speaking of Madness and A Life in Moods / Susanna Kayson, Mind vs. Brain / Cindy Feltner, Illness as a Result of Destruction [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / 5. MIND AND BODY Nicholson Baker, Changes of Mind / C. S. Lewis, Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare / Alan Lightman, Prologue and 24 April 1905 / John Updike, The Female Body / Margaret Atwood, The Female Body / Jill Dubisch, You are What You Eat / Carol Kloss, Fat / Joseph Epstein, A Fat Man Struggles to Get Out / Barbara Ehrenreich, The Naked Truth about Fitness / Marjorie Rosen, New Face, New Body, New Self / Aisling Kerins, A Metaphors Ability to Open the Door to Lacrosse [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / 6. MINDS AND MACHINES Chet Raymo, The Revenge of Yokyoks / James Bailey et al., Our Machines, Ourselves / Donald Norman, Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles / Ellen Ullman, Getting Close to the Machine / John Lawler, Metaphors We Compute By / Ted Wade, A Perplexatron Asks an AllKnowaBot / Esther Dyson, If You Dont Love It, Leave It / Carolyn Guyer, Along the Estuary / Nestor Sironi, Correspondence with Author and Worlds [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / 7. WAR AND MORE WAR Paul Fussell, The Real War 1939-45 / Hatsuho Naito, My Body Will Collapse Like a Falling Cherry Blossom / Edward Park, I Moved Far Away from Soaring IdealsI Became a Warrior / Tobias Wolff, Close Calls / Robert Olen Butler, Crickets / George Bush, The Liberation of Kuwait Has Begun / Saddam Hussein, The Mother of All Battles / Carol Cohn, Wars, Wimps, and Women / Bella English, When Words Go to War / Barbara Ehrenreich, Three Cases of War Worship / Larina Orlando, Malicious Metaphor [student essay] / Kimberly Turner, The Power of the Rhetoric of War in Butlers Crickets [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / 8. GAMES AND NOT GAMES James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / Bradd Shore, Loading the Bases / Margaret Visser, Crossword Puzzles / John McPhee, The Search for Marvin Gardens / Bright Pegeen Kelly, Song / Joy Williams, The Killing Game / Milan Kundera, The Hitchhiking Game / Kiri Salak, Boneyard Stretch / Yukiko Oka, BaseballA Mirror of Japanese Culture [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / Author and Title Index lness as a Result of Destruction [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / 5. MIND AND BODY Nicholson Baker, Changes of Mind / C. S. Lewis, Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare / Alan Lightman, Prologue and 24 April 1905 / John Updike, The Female Body / Margaret Atwood, The Female Body / Jill Dubisch, You are What You Eat / Carol Kloss, Fat / Joseph Epstein, A Fat Man Struggles to Get Out / Barbara Ehrenreich, The Naked Truth about Fitness / Marjorie Rosen, New Face, New Body, New Self / Aisling Kerins, A Metaphors Ability to Open the Door to Lacrosse [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / 6. MINDS AND MACHINES Chet Raymo, The Revenge of Yokyoks / James Bailey et al., Our Machines, Ourselves / Donald Norman, Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles / Ellen Ullman, Getting Close to the Machine / John Lawler, Metaphors We Compute By / Ted Wade, A Perplexatron Asks an AllKnowaBot / Esther Dyson, If You Dont Love It, Leave It / Carolyn Guyer, Along the Estuary / Nestor Sironi, Correspondence with Author and Worlds [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / 7. WAR AND MORE WAR Paul Fussell, The Real War 1939-45 / Hatsuho Naito, My Body Will Collapse Like a Falling Cherry Blossom / Edward Park, I Moved Far Away from Soaring IdealsI Became a Warrior / Tobias Wolff, Close Calls / Robert Olen Butler, Crickets / George Bush, The Liberation of Kuwait Has Begun / Saddam Hussein, The Mother of All Battles / Carol Cohn, Wars, Wimps, and Women / Bella English, When Words Go to War / Barbara Ehrenreich, Three Cases of War Worship / Larina Orlando, Malicious Metaphor [student essay] / Kimberly Turner, The Power of the Rhetoric of War in Butlers Crickets [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / 8. GAMES AND NOT GAMES James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / Bradd Shore, Loading the Bases / Margaret Visser, Crossword Puzzles / John McPhee, The Search for Marvin Gardens / Bright Pegeen Kelly, Song / Joy Williams, The Killing Game / Milan Kundera, The Hitchhiking Game / Kiri Salak, Boneyard Stretch / Yukiko Oka, BaseballA Mirror of Japanese Culture [student essay] / Permeable Boundaries: Writing Where the Readings Meet / Author and Title Index