Jonathan Swift's Metaphorical Conceptualization of Nature as a Woman and His "Aesthetic" Critique of Science

IF 0.4 4区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Pub Date : 2019-12-27 DOI:10.1353/pan.2020.0000

He Xiyao

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Abstract:This article relates Swift's critique of science to his view of women by resorting to Lakoff and Johnson's theory on the function of metaphors in human conceptualization. Through the overarching conceptual metaphor NATURE IS A WOMAN, the gap between these two areas in Swift studies, which have remained largely isolated so far, is bridged. The analysis shows that Swift's strange aesthetic view of and peculiar attitude toward women were, through the conceptual metaphor, extrapolated to nature, which can explain his condemnation of science as not only "unaesthetic" and "indecent" but also futile and morbid.

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乔纳森·斯威夫特将自然隐喻化为女性及其对科学的“美学”批判

摘要:本文借助Lakoff和Johnson关于隐喻在人类概念化中的作用的理论，将斯威夫特对科学的批判与其对女性的看法联系起来。通过“自然是女人”这一总体概念隐喻，斯威夫特研究中迄今为止在很大程度上仍然孤立的这两个领域之间的差距被弥合了。分析表明，斯威夫特对女性的奇怪的审美观和独特的态度，通过概念隐喻被外推到自然中，这可以解释他对科学的谴责不仅是“非审美的”和“不雅的”，而且是无用的和病态的。

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Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM-

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