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83. Ibid.
84. Victor Brombert, “Pass the Madeleines,” The New York Times, November 9, 1997.
85. Michiko Kakutani, Books of the Times, The New York Times, August 9, 2002. Her remarks are prefatory to a discussion of a subsequent book by the same author, The Art of Travel.
86. Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, trans. Jeffrey Mehlmann (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2007).
87. Laura Bohannan’s “Shakespeare in the Bush,” which first appeared in Natural History in 1966, and which Bayard cites from the Internet, is a classic account, and appears in the first essay in David Scott Kastan’s edited collection of Critical Essays on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, published in 1995. (London: G. K. Hall; Prentice Hall International).
88. Stuart Kelly, The Book of Lost Books (New York: Random House, 2005).
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1. Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, eds. Linda Ferreia-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005), 7.
2. John McCain, presidential debate, October 15, 2008, Hofstra University; Brian Ross and Avni Patel, “Buried in Eloquence, Obama Contradictions About Pastor,” March 19, 2008, at http://abcnews.go.com; George Will, “Obama’s Eloquence Fatigue,” The Washington Post, August 3, 2008; “Dem Race: Clinton Says Obama Offers Words, Not Actions,” USA Today, February 20, 2008.
3. For one of many available analyses, see Kelly Nuxoll, “Palin’s Sentences Lack Transparency and Accountability,” The Huffington Post, October 3, 2008.
4. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 157.
5. Ibid., 3.
6. In Metaphors We Live By, all of the headings are capitalized—THEORIES ARE BUILDINGS, LOVE IS MAGIC—I find it somewhere between distracting signposting and baby talk and have therefore silently converted all of the capitalization to less distracting quotation marks.
7. Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, 245.
8. Ibid., 18.
9. George Lakoff, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 2002), 153.
10. Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale, 1928, trans. Laurence Scott (Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1958), and “Boris Eichenbaum,” in Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed. Vincent B. Leitch (New York: Norton, 2001), 1,060.
11. Charles E. Reagan, Paul Ricouer: His Life and His Work (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 54. Stephen J. Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History (New York: Random House, 1996), 443–45.
12. The Poetics of Aristotle, trans. and commentary by Stephen Halliwell (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987), 55.
13. Aristotle, Rhetoric: The Complete Works of Aristotle, vol. 2, ed. Jonathan Barnes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 2,240.
14. Donald Davidson, “What Metaphors Mean,” in Sheldon Sacks, ed., On Metaphor (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 29.
15. Paul de Man, “The Epistemology of Metaphor,” in Sacks, On Metaphor, 11, 15.
16. Ibid., 14, 19.
17. Ibid., 19–20.
18. Andrzej Warmniski, Readings in Interpretation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), lv.
19. Samuel Johnson, “Life of Cowley,” in Lives of the English Poets (Dutton: New York, 1968), 11, 12.
20. John Dryden, “Discourse of the Original and Progress of Satire,” in Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry (1667) (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2004), 6.
21. Johnson, “Life of Cowley,” 12.
22. John Donne, “Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Lady Lucy, Countess of Bedford,” in John Donne, The Complete English Poems, ed. Albert James Smith (London: Penguin Classics, 1986), 35–40; Abraham Cowley, The Mistress (1656).
23. Johnson, “Life of Cowley,” 12–13.
24. T. S. Eliot, “The Metaphysical Poets,” Selected Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1932, 1960), 247.
25. Ibid.,