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Close reading: The basics (2018)
Book
Greenham, D. (2018). Close reading: The basics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203709979

© 2019 David Greenham. All rights reserved. Close reading is the most essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies. This book is the ideal guide to the practice, providing a methodology that can... Read More about Close reading: The basics.

The work of metaphor: Ralph waldo emerson's “circles” and conceptual metaphor theory (2018)
Journal Article
Greenham, D. (2018). The work of metaphor: Ralph waldo emerson's “circles” and conceptual metaphor theory. Esq -Pullman-, 64(3), 402-434. https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2018.0015

There has yet to be a systematic study of Emerson’s use of metaphor. This essay engages with Emerson ‘Circles’ and Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in an effort to remedy that lack, and also to inaugurate a reassessment of the work undertaken by meta... Read More about The work of metaphor: Ralph waldo emerson's “circles” and conceptual metaphor theory.