CORE 320 - Metaphors of Femininity

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Colgate University

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M. Darby This course argues that, far from merely ornamenting language, metaphor is essential to thought. As a deeply engrained habit of mind - so deeply engrained that native speakers are seldom aware of its power - metaphor offers fundamental access to the characteristic thinking of any culture. To study metaphor is to understand not only patterns of making meaning in the arts, but also underlying imaginative mental structures. In proposing such a central intellectual place for metaphor, the theoretical perspective of the course draws on the work of 20th-century linguists who challenge traditional views of metaphor dating from Aristotle. Course readings include theoretical works on metaphor, theoretical and historical works on femininity in modern Anglo-American culture, and a case study of the metapho r the hothouse flowe r from 19th-century Britain. Students undertake an advanced research project in which they analyze a specific ideology of femininity in its immediate cultural context through a linguistic or experiential metaphor in the discipline or across the multiple disciplines of their major(s). The course includes a trip to a heated glasshouse during winter.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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