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Israel

For the first time, this book suggests a comprehensive theory of nonverbal metaphor in the arts and an explanation for its vast appeal: its roots in preverbal imagistic thinking. It challenges theories designed to solely explain verbal metaphor, while its main conjecture is that the study of nonverbal metaphor sheds light also on verbal metaphor. Nonverbal metaphor is a phenomenon parallel to and no less widespread than verbal metaphor. Its primeval roots in preverbal imagistic thinking are reflected in residual preverbal phenomena, such as dreaming, day dreaming and children imaginative play. Metaphor thus reflects an alternative mode of thinking, which language had to integrate under a special convention. This book suggests a definition of iconicity on imagistic grounds, alternative to the traditional semiotic one, and focuses on and explores the omnipresence of metaphor in the arts, with particular emphasis on theatre.