Rhetorics of Becoming: Between Metamorphosis and Metaphor

IF 0.8 2区文学 0 LITERATURE

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/nlh.2022.0008

S. Frampton

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Abstract

Abstract:In a series of essays, Paul Ricœur and Jacques Derrida described the work of metaphor as a cognitive operation requiring readers to apprehend simultaneously the continuity and difference of tenor and vehicle: Juliet is and is not the sun; a book is and is not a chariot. In this paper, I show how the cognitive features required of a reader in thinking through metaphor are the same as those necessary to imagine literary metamorphosis, a trope that can be understood as the actualization of metaphor within the diegetic frame, that is, as a metaphor that is no longer figurative, but descriptive. Drawing on the work of W. T. Mitchell, this paper explores the relationship between these two literary figures as imaginative processes. In it, I propose that the phenomenological model of metaphor developed by Ricœur and Derrida be redeployed as a much-need critical apparatus with which to account for the cognitive work required in conceiving of metamorphosis in creative literature, focusing on key examples from Ovid, Dante, Shakespeare, and Rushdie.

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成为修辞：在变形与隐喻之间

摘要:保罗Ricœur和德里达在一系列文章中将隐喻的工作描述为一种认知操作，要求读者同时理解男声和载体的连续性和差异:朱丽叶是太阳又不是太阳;书是战车，但又不是战车。在本文中，我展示了读者通过隐喻思考所需要的认知特征与想象文学变形所需要的认知特征是相同的，文学变形可以被理解为隐喻在叙事框架内的实现，也就是说，作为一种不再是比喻的隐喻，而是描述性的隐喻。本文以米切尔的作品为基础，探讨了这两个文学人物在想象过程中的关系。在这篇文章中，我建议将Ricœur和德里达发展的隐喻现象学模型重新定位为一种急需的批判工具，用它来解释在创作文学中构思变形所需要的认知工作，重点关注奥维德、但丁、莎士比亚和拉什迪的关键例子。

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New Literary History LITERATURE-

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期刊介绍： New Literary History focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. Rather than espousing a single ideology or intellectual framework, it canvasses a wide range of scholarly concerns. By examining the bases of criticism, the journal provokes debate on the relations between literary and cultural texts and present needs. A major international forum for scholarly exchange, New Literary History has received six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.