ISLS 3210

The Frost is Hard-Edged and Quick: Metaphor - Making a Final Unity

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Course Description

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.


  • Charlotte Matthews

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    3.61

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    Summer 2024

  • Gail Hunger

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    Summer 2012

  • Christopher O'Neal

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    Summer 2012

  • Faculty Staff

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    Spring 2018

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    Fall 2022