The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding

by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.

Book Overview

In this bold new work, Ray Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination constitutes the way we understand ourselves and the world in which we live. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521429927
• ISBN13: 9780521429924
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"