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Writing guides teach us to avoid mixed metaphors like 'that wet blanket is a loose cannon', and suggest that we should limit ourselves to one metaphor per paragraph. But clearly this is terrible advice. The 'Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow' speech in Macbeth packs six metaphors into a few lines, and is considered a literary masterpiece. Scientific descriptions of light and matter necessarily include conflicting metaphors because we don't have a perfect metaphor for these concepts. Whilst it's true that mixed metaphors can sound ignorant or confusing, what we really need is a more nuanced definition of mixed metaphors, and a better system for identifying their benefits and drawbacks in different contexts. In Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse, Karen Sullivan employs findings from linguistics and cognitive science to explore why some mixed metaphors are criticised but similar metaphors are praised. By using Conceptual Metaphor Theory, she demonstrates how, once we understand how metaphoric ideas are put together, we can better appreciate the different ways that metaphors can be mixed, and how audiences are likely to respond to these differences. By analysing over 100 metaphors from politicians, sportspeople, writers, and other public figures, Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse delineates how mixing occurs and identifies the characteristics that make mixed metaphors annoying, amusing or astounding.

Metaphor --- Paradox --- Ambiguity --- Figures of speech --- Logic --- Contradiction --- Parabole --- Reification --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Psychological aspects --- Métaphore --- Paradoxe --- Ambiguïté --- Aspect psychologique. --- Metaphor. --- Paradox. --- Ambiguity.

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Romance has traditionally been dismissed by critics for failing to represent the world as it is, and yet it has been embraced by readers attracted to its distinctive depiction of reality. Given the pleasure it has afforded readers over the centuries, is it possible that it is expressing a truth unrecognized by realist genres? The Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages, Karen Sullivan argues, consistently ventriloquizes the criticisms that were being made of romance at the time and implicitly defends itself against those criticisms. The danger of romance shows that the conviction that ordinary reality is the only reality is itself an assumption, and one that can blind those who hold it to the extraordinary phenomena that exist around them, demonstrating that which is rare, ephemeral, and inexplicable is no less real than that which is commonplace, long-lasting, and easily accounted for. If romance continues to appeal to audiences today, whether in its Arthurian prototype or in its more recent incarnations, it is because it confirms the perception - or even the hope - of a beauty and truth in the world that realist genres deny.

17.86 literary genres, theory of genre. --- Arthurian romances --- Arthurian romances --- Arthurian romances --- Arthurian romances. --- Artusepik. --- French literature --- French literature. --- Literature. --- Appreciation. --- Appreciation. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Arthur, --- Arthur, --- Lancelot, --- Lancelot, --- Merlin, --- Merlin, --- Merlin, --- In literature. --- In literature. --- In literature. --- In literature. --- To 1500.

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"We have nothing of Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) written by the queen herself. Yet there is no shortage of books about her, no dearth of commentators speculating about her life, and no lack of readers eager to know more about what motivated this powerful, twelfth-century woman. What we do have, and what scholars have made use of over the centuries, are more than a hundred stories ("histories") about Eleanor from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that mention her in passing, but that end up being an odd mixture of fact and fiction. As Karen Sullivan reminds us in this book, it is telling that the medieval writers of these stories were always careful to qualify their accounts of Eleanor with the tag "it was said," acknowledging that they were merely repeating stories already in circulation. Further, we possess a dozen other accounts ("parahistories," as Sullivan calls them)-love songs, ballads, romances, anecdotes, treatises, and epistles from the period-all of which purport to tell us something of this queen. Fantastical as so many of the medieval tales about Eleanor may seem, for Sullivan, they tell us certain truths about what was possible for a woman in twelfth-century France, certain expectations buried in the fantasies, and those truths, as much as can be known at our great remove, are the subject of this book. Sullivan offers a new method to read, not through the historical records, as earlier scholars have done, but in them. For Sullivan, the challenge for us in trying to understand Eleanor is not to translate the vocabulary of the Middle Ages, with its privileging of terms like morality and prudence, into our own contemporary notions of political power, but to do the opposite: namely, to entertain, if only for a time, the conceptual categories in which medieval people organized their world. For twenty-first century readers, Sullivan suggests, the aim is not to bring Eleanor into our world, but to take ourselves into hers. Through intensive close readings of both the historical and parahistorical records, Sullivan challenges earlier characterizations of the queen, giving us a different way to understand Eleanor, her motivations, and actions. The book will be read by experts on Eleanor and medieval queenship, by scholars in medieval history and literature, and those interested in gender studies, as well as by a number of specialists in other aspects of the Middle Ages, in the crusades, for example, or courtly love, troubadour poetry, motherhood and inheritance, and monastic spirituality. It will also appeal to a number of general readers who are always interested in the life of this remarkable woman"-- "A reparative reading of stories about medieval queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Much of what we know about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and then Queen of England, we know from recorded rumor-gossip often qualified by the curious phrase "It was said" or the love songs, ballads, and romances that gossip inspired. While we can mine these stories for evidence about the historical Eleanor, Karen Sullivan invites us to consider, instead, what even the most fantastical of these tales reveal about this queen and about life as a twelfth-century noblewoman. This book paints a fresh portrait of a singular medieval queen and the women who shared her world"--

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