Rethinking Metonymy
Subtitle: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780198724278
Subjects: Classical literature, history and criticism
Description: Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right. Not only has this created a gap in literary analytical scholarship which needs to be addressed, but it has also allowed for problematic appropriations of metonymy as a critical concept now widely in use in structuralist studies across the humanities. Rethinking Metonymy is the first monograph to confront and resolve these issues. It advances the theory of poetic language by developing a ground-breaking new definition of metonymy on the basis of an evaluation of examples in Greek tragedy and lyric poetry, considering these in conjunction with examples from classicizing and Romantic German poetry for the purposes of illustration and comparison, including works by Goethe, Schiller, and Holderlin.