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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-100773545190
ISBN-139780773545199
eBay Product ID (ePID)208689165
Product Key Features
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMissing Link : the Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution
Publication Year2015
SubjectGeneral
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Science, Education
AuthorJeffery Donaldson
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Donaldson provides meticulously developed and arranged arguments in support of his positions through a conceptual and evolving metaphorical procedure. Missing Link is a highly original and deeply exciting book." Adam Dickinson, Brock University
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal808/.032
SynopsisWe look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link - metaphor - is always in front of us. In Missing Link, Jeffery Donaldson unites literary criticism and evolutionary and cognitive science to show how metaphor has been with us since the beginning of time as a seed in the nature of things. With examples from centuries of poets, critics, philosophers, and scientists, he details how metaphor is a chemistry, an exchange of energies forming and dissolving, and an openness in the spaces between things. He considers the ways in which DNA learns how to liken things that have been, how mutation makes errors and then tries them on, and how evolution is hypothesis - nature's way of "thinking more." The mind is a matrix of relations: neural synapses cascade into ever-changing pathways and patterns. Metaphor is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It is the unbroken thread between matter and spirit. Whether offering analysis of a turn of phrase or chemical reaction, Missing Link presents a vision of literature that is also a vision of the cosmos, and vice versa. It enters the debate between evolution and religion, and challenges scientists, literary theorists, and religious advocates to rethink the relations between their disciplines., A stunning meeting of the humanities and sciences, perceived in the metaphoric behaviours that pervade both.
LC Classification NumberPR9199.3.D5518
