Lecture-based Reading:
Literalism and Tropes
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- Brooks, Cleanth & Warren Robert Penn (1979)
Modern Rhetoric (4th Edn). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem07.html
- Chandler, Daniel (2001)
Semiotics: The Basics (1st Edition). London: Routledge, Chapter Four: 'Challenging the Literal'
- Chandler, Daniel (2007)
Semiotics: The Basics (2nd Edition). London: Routledge, Chapter Four: 'Challenging the Literal'
- Corbett, Edward P J (1990)
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (3rd Edn). New York: Oxford University Press
- Forceville, Charles (1998)
Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising. London: Routledge
- Handa, Carolyn (Ed) (2004)
Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World. Boston, MA: Bedford/St Martin's
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Defining Visual Rhetorics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
- Kostelnick, Charles & Michael Hassett (2003)
Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions. Carbondale, IL: Southern llinois University Press
- Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson (1980)
Metaphors we Live By. Chicago: Chicago University Press
- Lanham, Richard A (1991)
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms (2nd Edn). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
- Lodge, David (1996)
The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy and the Typology of Modern Literature. London: Arnold
- Ortony, Andrew (Ed.) (1979)
Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Metaphor and Visual Rhetoric: Special Issue of Metaphor and Symbolic Activity. Hillsdale, NJ: Sage
- Scott, Linda M & Rajeev Batra (Eds) (2003)
Persuasive Imagery: A Consumer Response Perspective. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
- Sloane, Thomas O (Ed) (2001)
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Stafford,. Barbara Maria (2001)
Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
- States, Bert O. (1988)
The Rhetoric of Dreams. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
- White, Hayden (1987)
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press