On Metaphor, an accumulation of fourteen articles by famous scholars, abstract pundits, scholars, craftsmanship students of history, and analysts, outlines and investigates a striking wonder in cutting edge scholarly history: the change of similitude from a particular worry of rhetoricians and artistic commentators to a focal idea in the investigation of human comprehension.

These exuberant and provocative expositions test the nature, capacity, and significance of allegory and altogether exhibit the multidisciplinary ramifications of the idea.

On account of its complete degree, the volume is helpful both as an asset for those inspired by contemporary reasoning and hypotheses of dialect and as a content for courses in such territories as the logic of dialect, basic hypothesis, and the theory of learning. Initially distributed as an extraordinary issue of Critical Inquiry, the present gathering incorporates two new commitments by Max Black and Nelson Goodman, alongside an extensive record to the work.

Contents:

Foreword
Metaphor and the Cultivation of Intimacy by Ted Cohen
The Epistemology of Metaphor by Paul de Man
What Metaphors Mean by Donald Davidson
Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation by Wayne C. Booth
Metaphor and Transcendence by Karsten Harries
Metaphor and Religion: The Test Case of Christian Texts by David Tracy
Art and Life: A Metaphoric Relationship by Richard Shiff
The Development of Metaphoric Competence: Implications for Humanistic Disciplines by Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner
The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling by Paul Ricoeur
Afterthoughts on Metaphor
I. A Postscript on Metaphor by W. V. Quine
II. Toward a Psychology of Metaphor by Don R. Swanson
III. The Many Uses of Metaphor by Karsten Harries
IV. Ten Literal "Theses" by Wayne C. Booth
V. Metaphor as Moonlighting
VI. How Metaphors Work: A Reply to Donald Davidson by Max Black
Index