{"product_id":"9781441137029","title":"Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor","description":"Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to a blindness or blurry vision of metaphors; yet even when they are seen clearly, we are left to situate the ambiguities, conflations and contradictions they regularly present-logically, aesthetically and morally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid LaRocca's book serves as a set of 'reminders' of certain features of the natural history of our language-especially the tropes that permeate and define it. As part of his investigation, LaRocca turns to Ralph Waldo Emerson's only book on a single topic, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Traits\u003c\/i\u003e (1856), which teems with genealogical and generative metaphors-blood, birth, plants, parents, family, names and race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the first book-length study of \u003ci\u003eEnglish Traits\u003c\/i\u003e in over half a century, LaRocca considers the presence of metaphors in Emerson's fertile text-a unique work in his expansive corpus, and one that is regularly overlooked. As metaphors are encountered in Emerson's book, and drawn from a long history of usage in work by others, a reader may realize (or remember) what is inherent and encoded in our language, but rarely seen: how metaphors circulate in speech and through texts to become the lifeblood of thought.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154904432880,"sku":"9781441137029","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441137029_p0.jpg?v=1763793379","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441137029","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}