Mar 28, 2024  
Undergraduate Record 2007-2008 
    
Undergraduate Record 2007-2008 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

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