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Metaphor (The New Critical Idiom) by David Punter is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Metaphor (The New Critical Idiom) about?
Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor. In this fascinating volume, David Punter: establishes the classical background of the term from its philosophical roots to the religious and political tradition of metaphor in the East relates metaphor to the public realms of culture and
Who reads Metaphor (The New Critical Idiom)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Punter
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781134461264
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Linguistics
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (15 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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