...This chapter examines the work of arguably the most well-known Asian American poet writing today, Li-Young Lee. This chapter considers what makes Lee’s poetry so desirable to mainstream non-Asian American audiences by examining the rhetorical trope of metaphor, whose nature instantiates...

...This chapter begins with a discussion of alchemy and modernism. It then considers artists' engagement with alchemy, and the use of alchemy as a metaphor for digital money and the production of alternative fuels or energy sources. 4D Man Andreae Johann Valentin author of The Chemical Wedding...

...This chapter, which explores Grünbein's poetic engagement with the question of subjectivity, first examines his sustained dialogue with René Descartes. It then explicates the poetic significance of his conception of subjectivity as a function of metaphor. Finally, the chapter traces the concrete...

...This chapter explores revolutionary metaphors of the wind and weather in poems by William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Two very different historical situations organize this chapter: the forced extraction and imprisonment of the Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by the French in 1802...

...This chapter concerns metaphor in Shelley’s Queen Mab, and it aligns the poem’s figures of spirit with the ethereal atmospheres of natural philosophy. For Shelley, ether is an ideal for poetic thinking. Irreducible to either spirit or matter, ether suspends the distinction between them. It gave...

...Metaphor embodies Amichai's principle of “in-between-ness” and has a significance within his poetic system that far exceeds the rhetorical. Chapter Five focuses on metaphor as the central marker of liminality, the hyphen of survival and resistance: it must never erase that hyphen, the marker...

...The Epilogue returns to the use of Palestine as a metaphor of the colonial during the mass protests of the 2010s with a close reading of the Syrian novelist Samar Yazbek’s memoir of the Syrian uprising. Without effacing the important contextual and historical differences between and amongst current...

...This chapter traces the troubled fate of a particular cognitive metaphor—the mind as a container for textual mental states—in American literary history. The novels that Charles Brockden Brown wrote in 1798–99 obsessively return to a curious scenario: a chest or box is supposed to hold important...

... and manuscript culture orality and speech Dante Alighieri John Keats Hyperion telegraphy semaphores ductus allegory scripture accommodation mediation metaphor It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways. William Wordsworth, “Scorn not the Sonnet” We could posit...

...)colonial subjection. Elaborating on Mahmoud Darwish’s image of “Palestine as metaphor” and Edward Said’s reflections on the utopian dimensions of Palestine, the Introduction argues that Palestine has become the figure par excellence of the colonial, broadly conceived, in the purportedly postcolonial...

... Blake William Derrida Jacques Jews Tsvetaeva Marina Seinsdenken poeticization thingliness allegory Cassirer Ernst dream metaphor mythos poetic time Schelling Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph waking Husserl Edmund illusion poetic calling unreal Blanchot Maurice imaginary language solitude...

... represent what he himself considers to be “the highest style.” The chapter features six metaphorical examples, four of which are mutually related and may be said to belong to the same stylistic category. One example is the metaphor of the wet iris stalk, whose cool and immaculate freshness naturally places...