Much More than Metaphor
Master Tropes of Artistic Language and Imagination
©2013
Monographs
195 Pages
Series:
Interfaces, Volume 3
Summary
The monograph argues for a return to a more fine-grained repertoire of tropes than the limiting analyses focused on metaphor or on the metaphor-metonymy duet. A list of ten master tropes is proposed, not only as candidates for tropological universals but also important text-forming strategies and a reflection of artistic imagination. The author presents a three-layered model of their organization into micro-, macro- and mega-/metatropes that partake in the construal of tropological space and figurative worlds. The book brings together Anglo-American and French-language philosophy of rhetoric, cognitive studies, and a tradition of Russian formalistic-semiotic research. It straddles the boundary between linguistic and literary stylistics as well as between post-structural and cognitive poetics, pointing also to an interdisciplinary nature of tropes.
Details
- Pages
- 195
- Publication Year
- 2013
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653029581
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631644034
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-02958-1
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2013 (June)
- Keywords
- Cognitive poetics linguistic stylistics Anglo-American pilosophy of rhetoric deconstructivist criticism
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 195 pp.
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