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Rethinking Metonymy

Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvSebastian Matzner,King's College London) Matzner, Sebastian (Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Lecturer in Comparative Literature

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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 Hölderlin. In addition to establishing the fundamental principle, different conformations, and aesthetic effects of this important poetic device, the volume also demonstrates how the new arguments it offers have the potential to set an agenda for far-reaching reconsiderations in literary studies and beyond. It mobilizes analytical insights into the inner workings of metonymy by examining three case studies designed to explore the trope in critical practice, covering its role in creating a 'hellenizing' style, what happens to it in 'classic' German translations of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and critically re-assessing its modern re-appropriations as a structural-semiotic paradigm. Connecting classical perspectives with modern linguistic and literary theory, Rethinking Metonymy is a compelling and authoritative analysis that rehabilitates and brings much-needed clarity to an oft-neglected literary device. Its combination of in-depth engagement with classical literature and cross-cultural and cross-linguistic comparison makes it an invaluable resource not only to specialists in Greek poetry, but also to students and scholars engaged in literary analysis, translation criticism, and structuralist studies across a much wider range of disciplines.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-09-26
Mått139 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieClassics in Theory Series
Antal sidor336
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198724285

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Sebastian Matzner is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London, where he earned his Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature in 2012. His doctoral thesis, entitled 'The Forgotten Trope: Metonymy in Poetic Action', won the University of Heidelberg's Prize for Classical Philology and Literary Theory and he was subsequently awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to pursue his postdoctoral research project 'Beautiful Tyrants: Postcolonial Reflections on Philhellenism in Rome and Germany' at the University of Oxford. After lectureships in Classics and Latin Language and Literature at Oxford and the University of Exeter respectively, he returned to King's College London in September 2015.

1: Introduction: Metonymy - the Forgotten Trope?Metonymia at AulisMetonymy - the Forgotten Trope?Tropology and the Formal Method: A Reappraisal of Descriptive PoeticsFinding Metonyms in Poetic Action: The Text CorpusStandard Usage, Literary Aesthetics, and Literary LexicographyEnter the Reader2: Contiguity and its (Dis-)Contents: Metonymy in TheoryBetween Forgotten Trope and Master Trope - Why Metonymy MattersTropes and FiguresTropicality, the Tropical Space, and the TropesMapping the Tropical SpaceDevelopments in Theory of Metaphor'Contiguity' and its (Dis-)Contents: Characterizing MetonymyLexical Contiguity: Metonymy and the Theory of Semantic Fields3: Forms and Effects: Metonymy in Poetic ActionIndex MetonymyAmplification MetonymyGrammatical MetonymyMetonymic Presences4: Beyond Theory: Metonymy in Critical PracticeMetonymy and Translation CriticismMetonymy and Stylistic CriticismMetonymy and (Post-)Structuralist Criticism5: ConclusionEndmatterBibliographyGeneral IndexIndex of Passages Discussed

This important book sheds light on four quite different fields: Greek poetic usage in its greatest age, and German, in its; translation studies; and, above all, poetic theory. The most important outcome is a new and greatly enhanced understanding of metonymy. Crucially, Matzner's theory of metonymy insists on the primacy of literary usage, and he conducts his theorizing, as all such theorizing should be conducted, as a negotiation between existing theory and significant literary instances. In the process, the limitations of existing theory— still stuck in the world of Greco-Roman rhetoric, with or without some pointers (but little more) from Roman Jakobson and some distractions from cognitive linguistics—are patiently, lucidly, and sensitively exposed. This is a work of great acumen and striking originality.

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