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Chapter 4. Metaphor as Experimental Medicine

© 2011, Boydell and Brewer

© 2011, Boydell and Brewer

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of Illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgements ix
  5. Introduction: On Rhetoric and Remedy 1
  6. Chapter 1. The Love-Imprint 23
  7. Chapter 2. Medical Blindness, Rhetorical Insight 54
  8. Chapter 3. Irony, or the Therapeutics of Contraries 79
  9. Chapter 4. Metaphor as Experimental Medicine 113
  10. Chapter 5. Metonymy and Prosthesis 147
  11. Chapter 6. Blindfold Synecdoche 187
  12. Epilogue. Just Words 211
  13. Bibliography 215
  14. Index 235
Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781846157813-007

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of Illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgements ix
  5. Introduction: On Rhetoric and Remedy 1
  6. Chapter 1. The Love-Imprint 23
  7. Chapter 2. Medical Blindness, Rhetorical Insight 54
  8. Chapter 3. Irony, or the Therapeutics of Contraries 79
  9. Chapter 4. Metaphor as Experimental Medicine 113
  10. Chapter 5. Metonymy and Prosthesis 147
  11. Chapter 6. Blindfold Synecdoche 187
  12. Epilogue. Just Words 211
  13. Bibliography 215
  14. Index 235
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