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ERIC Number: EJ514605
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0014-164X
Metaphorical Maps of Improbable Fictions: The Semantic Parables of Christian Morgenstern.
Scott, Robert Ian
ETC: A Review of General Semantics, v52 n3 p276-83 Fall 1995
States that Christian Morgenstern made a fundamental point of semantics clear by making any absolute faith in words ridiculous. Describes other pieces of Morgenstern's poetry, and examines its implications in semantic terms. Points out that Morgenstern ridiculed the assumption that what is said must be sensible, as if the world must obey human words and logic. (PA)
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Poetry, Semantics
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: General Semantics Paradigm (Korzybski); Morgenstern (Christian)
Note: Journal availability: Intl. Soc. for General Semantics, Box 728, Concord, CA 94522.