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Mar 28, 2024
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Undergraduate Record 2007-2008 [ARCHIVED RECORD]
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ISLS 321 - The Frost is Hard-Edged and Quick: Metaphor - Making a Final Unity What is a metaphor? What role does it play in the way we see the world, ourselves and others? What metaphors guide our own thinking – as a society and a culture—about politics, crime, illness, ourselves, love and life? If we take metaphor seriously, is it possible to draw a hard line between fact and fiction, between arts and sciences, between the objective and subjective? Does metaphor refute reason? In this course students investigate these and related questions using a variety of media. Texts will be drawn from a spectrum of disciplines including poetry, cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literature and literary criticism. (IR)
Credits: 3
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