The Role of Image and Imagination in Paul Ricoeur’s Metaphor Theory

Paul Ricoeur uncovered the creative aspect of language in his theory of metaphor. The metaphor is a special combination of words that as a clash of distant semantic fields forces the reader to interpret the sentence in a new way and see things in a new light. It is a process in which the imagination...

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Main Author: Katarzyna Weichert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Warsaw 2019-04-01
Series:Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
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Online Access:http://eidos.uw.edu.pl/the-role-of-image-and-imagination-in-paul-ricoeurs-metaphor-theory/