{"title": "Metaphors of Mind", "subjects": ["Metaphor", "English language, terms and phrases", "Dictionaries", "History", "18th century", "English language", "Terms and phrases", "Metaforer", "Historia", "Engelska spr\u00e5ket", "Terminologi"], "key": "/works/OL21098503W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL8073955A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Brad Pasanek's unusual work is the written report of a massive digital humanities project that involved searching 18th-century texts for the many ways writers use metaphors to characterize the mind. The book takes a selection of broad metaphorical categories that the author discovered in his digital research - including animals, coinage, metal, rooms, and writing - and examines particular examples within each category. Pasanek also frames the \"dictionary\" elements of the project with a more theoretical discussion of what he calls \"desultory reading,\" a form of \"unsystematic perusal\" of writing exemplified in the way we approach dictionaries. Pasanek not only argues that 18th-century thinkers largely employed desultory reading, but also that his work on this very project is itself an instance of this approach. The project succeeds twofold: in treating 18th-century writing as its topic and in exemplifying its approach. Pasanek maintains an accompanying website (http://metaphorized.net) that collects the results of his digital searches."}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-08-04T13:39:18.218652"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-01T15:20:32.306811"}}