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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.
Contents
1: Introduction: Metonymy - the Forgotten Trope?
Metonymia at Aulis
Metonymy - the Forgotten Trope?
Tropology and the Formal Method: A Reappraisal of Descriptive Poetics
Finding Metonyms in Poetic Action: The Text Corpus
Standard Usage, Literary Aesthetics, and Literary Lexicography
Enter the Reader
2: Contiguity and its (Dis-)Contents: Metonymy in Theory
Between Forgotten Trope and Master Trope - Why Metonymy Matters
Tropes and Figures
Tropicality, the Tropical Space, and the Tropes
Mapping the Tropical Space
Developments in Theory of Metaphor
'Contiguity' and its (Dis-)Contents: Characterizing Metonymy
Lexical Contiguity: Metonymy and the Theory of Semantic Fields
3: Forms and Effects: Metonymy in Poetic Action
Index Metonymy
Amplification Metonymy
Grammatical Metonymy
Metonymic Presences
4: Beyond Theory: Metonymy in Critical Practice
Metonymy and Translation Criticism
Metonymy and Stylistic Criticism
Metonymy and (Post-)Structuralist Criticism
5: Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Passages Discussed
