More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor

That's what i needed for my thesis! The idea's presented in this book you can also found in other books of Lakoff, but the title looks great in my list of used literature;)

A must-read for anyone who seeks who seeks understanding and knowledge that opens new vistas. It's like a choice between the red pill and the blue pill.

This 1989 book is an early application of brain science applied to language and to literature. It presents one way to look at metaphors as used in poetry, says we all use metaphorical speech, but that poets are just very good at using it.There is considerable detail, including a list of a hundred or so metaphors which are said to be a part of culture, language, and which are part of the way people in a certain culture think. These basic metaphors are combined and used often without us being aware we use them.More Than Cool Reason gives an interesting view into how we may think, speak, and write, but I found it hard to find definitions to explain the theory. Definitions seemed to be buried in examples, so I couldn’t be sure that terms like "mapping" or "schema" or "lower-order attribute" meant the same thing or not, each time they were used.There are lots of examples, and the authors admit their interpretations of poems and passages are only one way to look at those individual texts. Maybe I’m not part of the intended audience for this book, even though I found it an interesting read.

it is new. really good.

Important work--it was new to me.

"More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor," written by George Lakoff and Mark Turner is an eye opener for those interested in metaphors. It's an interesting blend of language use and mental models.For more book reviews, please visit: [...]

Reading "More Than Cool Reason" will be a breath of fresh air to anyone who has not yet encountered the "Lakoff-Johnson-Turner" bibliography on metaphor human thought. I found this more helpful than "Metaphors We Live By" (Lakoff & Johnson), since it deals with specific texts (e.g., "Because I could not stop for Death", "Sonnet 73" (Shakespeare), "By the Light of the Jasmine Moon"), which anchors their discussion, which might otherwise veer into the rather abstract.Reading this book changed my thinking about metaphor, and has drastically affected--for the better--my teaching on metaphor in my courses on poetry. Students have also found it extremely helpful. There is some rather tiresome repetition, but much of the authors' reiteration of points is necessary to understanding what they are saying. The indices are very helpful, although I found it necessary to extend their topical index with my own "speed index".

More than Cool Reason Ain't so Hot Reason. The professorial jargon, and , laborious labeling and system building was tiring. As for interpretation of poems most were overly complex, and, incorrect. The poem about a church and a young poet, is more about not being confined to set frames.At best this is how not to understand metaphor.