Metafore della mente. Tra letteratura e linguistica

What do we mean when we talk about the “workings” of the mind or about a “calculated” decision? Does “have something in mind” allude to a type of container of ideas? Or, if we go from everyday language to literary expressions, what are the implications in “the dark mirror of the mind” (Alexis de Tocqueville), “atmosphere of the mind” (Henry James), “chambers of the brain” (Virginia Woolf), or “the stream of consciousness” (William James)? This volume examines various metaphors of the mind, both in natural language—where they are often used without being aware of their analogical nature—, and in literary writing, where they impose themselves rather as an anomaly, an unexpected jolt in the routine of conventional linguistic mechanisms.