Jonathan Swift's Metaphorical Conceptualization of Nature as a Woman and His "Aesthetic" Critique of Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21834476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | He Xiyao, Xiyao He (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Partial Answers Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1936-9247 • E-ISSN: 1565-3668 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/pan.2020.0000 |
| OpenAlex | W2998181554 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article relates Swift's critique of science to his view of women by resorting to Lakoff and Johnson's theory on the function of metaphors in human conceptualization. Through the overarching conceptual metaphor NATURE IS A WOMAN, the gap between these two areas in Swift studies, which have remained largely isolated so far, is bridged. The analysis shows that Swift's strange aesthetic view of and peculiar attitude toward women were, through the conceptual metaphor, extrapolated to nature, which can explain his condemnation of science as not only "unaesthetic" and "indecent" but also futile and morbid
Aesthetics · Conceptual metaphor · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Physics · Sociology · Swift · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |