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| | Objects in Space and Time: Metonymy in Durrell's Island Books [*].(Critical Essay) - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26) |
 | | The syntagmatic structure, moving from phrase to phrase like a camera panning over a crowd, picks out figures in colorful costumes and presents a vivid cross-section of island cultural life. |
 | | The viewpoint of this prose-poem is immersed in water, like the swimmer's body: disjunct syntax and parallel structures suspend closure and convey a sensory complex of drifting, smelling, tasting, touching, looking. |
 | | In Durrell's reconstructions of the past, synecdoche is the key trope: in his use of it, sensations, impressions, objects, cameos, and portraits retain their integrity while forming structural relations that imply a timeless ethos. |
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