Full Description
This volume features two dimensions of Michael Osborn's work with rhetorical metaphor. The first focuses on his early efforts to develop a conception of metaphor to advance the understanding of rhetoric, while the second concerns more recent efforts to apply this enriched conception in the analysis and criticism of significant rhetorical practice. The older emphasis features four of Osborn's more prominent published essays, revealing the personal context in which they were generated, their strengths and shortcomings, and how they may have inspired the work of others. His more recent unpublished work analyzes patterns of metaphor in the major speeches of Demosthenes, the evolution of metaphors of illness and cure in speeches across several millennia, the exploitation of the birth-death-rebirth metaphor in Riefenstahl's masterpiece of Nazi propaganda Triumph of the Will, and the contrasting forms of spatial imagery in the speeches of Edmund Burke and Barack Obama and what these contrasts may portend.
Contents
Contents Preface Prologue: Loomings Part 1. Concepts of Metaphor: Four Essays and How They Grew The Metaphor in Public Address The Iowa Years and the Emerging Focus on Archetypal Metaphor Archetypal Metaphor in Rhetoric: The Light-Dark Family The Evolution of the Archetypal Sea in Rhetoric and Poetic Toward Rhetorical Depiction Rhetorical Depiction Part 2. Metaphors in Action: New Horizons Entr'acte Lessons from Demosthenes Progeny of Personification: Metaphors of Disease and Rebirth Space and Power: Vertical and Horizontal Orientations in a Rhetorical Universe Epilogue: The Chase Bibliographic Perspectives Index
