Rethinking Metonymy: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson

by Sebastian Matzner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198724284
• ISBN13: 9780198724285
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"