Theories of metamorphosis: from metatrope to textual revision.(Rhetoric and Poetics)

From: Style | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: Mikkonen, Kai | Copyright information

Gaston Bachelard, Mikhail Baktin and Roman Jakobson may be credited with the first critical studies on literary metamorphosis. As a metaphor, the change non-human, non-linguistic creature creates problems with characterization and narration. In Franz Kafka's novel, metamorphosis stops at thought-level and metaphor is conflated with metonymy. The inanimate-to-animate transformation is another type of metamorphosis that mirrors the first, but with the added trope of personification. Finally, th...

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