Download or read book Objects of Metaphor written by Samuel D. Guttenplan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guttenplan puts forward a philosophical account of metaphor much different from those used currently. Powerful and flexible enough to cope with the syntactic complexity typical of genuine metaphor, he offers novel conceptions of the relationship between simile and metaphor and the notion of dead metaphor.