The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth-century Literature, Philosophy, and TheologyFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007 - 718 pages Sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletcher's use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) - a poetic allegory of human anatomy. This book demonstrates that the analogies and metaphors of literary works share coherence and consistency with anatomy textbooks. |
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List of Illustrations 9 117 | 12 |
Conceptual Metaphors of the Isle of Man | 31 |
The Creative Metaphor of the Isle of Man | 87 |
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