Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents vii
3. acknowledgments ix
4. PART I. Theory and Practice
5. one. Two Figures: (1) Metaphor 3
6. two. Two Figures: (2) Metonymy 10
7. three. Making Metaphors, Seeing Metonymies 14
8. four. Metonymy, Metaphor, and Perception: De Man and Nietzsche 25
9. five. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Redundancy 42
10. six. The Semiotics of Metaphor and Metonymy: Umberto Eco 54
11. seven. Frost and Roses: The Disenchantment of a Reluctant Modernist 68
12. PART II. History
13. eight. Metaphor and the Anxiety of Fictiveness: St. Augustine 75
14. nine. Metaphor and Metonymy in the Middle Ages: Aquinas and Dante 82
15. ten. Sacramental Anxiety in the Late Middle Ages: Hugh of St. Victor, the Abbot Suger, and Dante 94
16. eleven. Ulysses as Modernist: From Metonymy to Metaphor in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida 115
17. notes 125
18. index 153