Metaphor, Lexicography, and Rabelais’s Prologue to Gargantua
(2017)
Book Chapter
Banks, K. (2018). Metaphor, Lexicography, and Rabelais’s Prologue to Gargantua. In K. Banks, & T. Chesters (Eds.), Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence (81-107). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69200-5_5
Marshalling history and contemporary science, Banks investigates what happens when writers revive the embodied content of “dead metaphors” or Latin etymons. Analysing Rabelais’s Prologue to Gargantua and Dolet’s Commentaries on the Latin Language, Ba... Read More about Metaphor, Lexicography, and Rabelais’s Prologue to Gargantua.