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"text": "In this way he promotes landscape into a supermetaphor, in order to expose a general tendency towards equalization.",
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"ref": "1998, Shaun Gallagher, The Inordinance of Time, page 107",
"text": "...one supermetaphor. Perhaps we could steal a phrase from Merleau-Ponty and suggest that there are no principal and subordinate metaphors: all metaphors are concentric, like the concentricity of flesh, a metaphor for which there are no names in traditional philosophy.",
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"ref": "2016, Christy Wampole, Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor, page 17",
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"ref": "2004, Jonathan Beaty, S. C. Gwynne, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI, page xxiii",
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"ref": "2016, Dawn Keetley, Angela Tenga, Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film",
"text": "Gerhart von Graevenitz (1994) also problematizes the current supermetaphor status of the term arabesque; before the “globalization of its catchment area,” he notes, the arabesque was a poetic paradigm of the Romantic period in literature.",
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"text": "This is a case of supermetaphor called metalepsis by Quintilian and transumptio by Geoffrey of Vinsauf. The images echo one another.",
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"ref": "1998, Shaun Gallagher, The Inordinance of Time, page 107",
"text": "...one supermetaphor. Perhaps we could steal a phrase from Merleau-Ponty and suggest that there are no principal and subordinate metaphors: all metaphors are concentric, like the concentricity of flesh, a metaphor for which there are no names in traditional philosophy.",
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"text": "BCCI suddenly bloomed as a sort of supermetaphor for the INTRODUCTION: THE DEVIL'S PAYMASTER.",
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