{"product_id":"missing-link-the-evolution-of-metaphor-and-the-metaphor-of-evolution-paperback","title":"Missing Link: The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffery Donaldson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link - metaphor - is always in front of us. In \u003ci\u003eMissing Link, \u003c\/i\u003eJeffery Donaldson unites literary criticism and evolutionary and cognitive science to show how metaphor has been with us since the beginning of time as a seed in the nature of things. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith examples from centuries of poets, critics, philosophers, and scientists, he details how metaphor is a chemistry, an exchange of energies forming and dissolving, and an openness in the spaces between things. He considers the ways in which DNA learns how to liken things that have been, how mutation makes errors and then tries them on, and how evolution is hypothesis - nature's way of \"thinking more.\" The mind is a matrix of relations: neural synapses cascade into ever-changing pathways and patterns. Metaphor is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It is the unbroken thread between matter and spirit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether offering analysis of a turn of phrase or chemical reaction, \u003ci\u003eMissing Link\u003c\/i\u003e presents a vision of literature that is also a vision of the cosmos, and vice versa. It enters the debate between evolution and religion, and challenges scientists, literary theorists, and religious advocates to rethink the relations between their disciplines.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffery Donaldson teaches English at McMaster University and is the author of poetry collections \u003ci\u003ePalilalia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWaterglass \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \u003ci\u003eMissing Link: The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 31, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48873962111225,"sku":"9780773545199","price":70.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/73r79WZs529780773545199.webp?v=1787321384","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/missing-link-the-evolution-of-metaphor-and-the-metaphor-of-evolution-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}