Metaphor(m): Engaging a Theory of Central Trope in Art
Mark Staff Brandl

This is the main page for the on-line, in process, version of my PhD dissertion, which I am writing under the direction of Prof. Philip Urspung at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. My second reader is Dr. Andreas Langlotz at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Something like a developing table of contents, you can click on the links below to go to a page for each chapter, which includes the painting(s), sequential comic art page(s) and studies as well as the text. Each chapter is also being posted to www.sharkforum.org/ with a link to this archival location, where the comments and discussion also occur. All elements are (c) and TM 2008-2010 by Mark Staff Brandl.

I originally intended to post the chapters as html, however have now decided to do them as pdfs. The Prelude is in both.
 

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CHAPTERS POSTED SO FAR

PRELUDE: Trope, Agon et Quo Vadam as html. As pdf here.
                 (Please post comments and discussion on the Prelude here at sharkforum.org)

CHAPTER ONE: Wandering and Surveying:Links to Literary Theory and Contemporary Aesthetics
                 (Please post comments and discussion on Chapter One here at sharkforum.org)

CHAPTER TWO: The Theory of Central Trope: Metaphor and Meta-Form
             
 (Please post comments and discussion on Chapter Two here at sharkforum.org)

CHAPTER THREE: Excursus
             
 (Please post comments and discussion on Chapter Three here at sharkforum.org)