Objects in Space and Time: Metonymy in Durrell's Island Books [*].(Critical Essay)
From: Style
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Date: 3/22/2000
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Author: Stewart, Jack
Roman Jakobson links "selection and substitution" with the metaphoric pole of language, "combination and contexture" with the metonymic (90). "In manipulating these two kinds of connection (similarity and contiguity)," he writes, "an individual exhibits his personal style, his verbal predilections and preferences" (91). With a slight adjustment to put the travel writer in place of the realist, Jakobson's terminology can be applied to Durrell's island writing: "Following the path of ...
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