'Moments of Punctuation': Metonymy and Ellipsis in Tim O'Brien.

From: Yearbook of English Studies | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: LUSTIG, T. J. | Copyright information

Abstract

From Aristotle to Roman Jakobson and beyond, metaphor's status as the pre-eminent literary trope has been accepted largely without question. If the characteristic force of metaphor lies in the way it widens the gap between language and event, it is possible that metaphor's 'rule' may be weakened when language and event collide. The article argues that it is in the light of such collisions, dislocations, and displacements rather than in the more measured figurin...

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