Much More than Metaphor

The monograph argues for a return to a more fine-grained repertoire of tropes than the limiting analyses focused on metaphor or on the metaphor-metonymy duet. A list of ten master tropes is proposed, not only as candidates for tropological universals but also important text-forming strategies and a reflection of artistic imagination.

Autorentext

El bieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska is a professor of linguistics in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research fields are general and literary semantics, linguistic stylistics and philosophy of language. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Literary Semantics.

Inhalt
Contents: Master tropes of artistic imagination and language Microtropes, macrotropes, mega-/metatropes as text-forming strategies and modes of discourse Metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, simile, antithesis, catachresis, euphemia, suppression, hyperbole Tropes in the unconscious Tropological universals Tropological space Figurative worlds.