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 Studies in Short Fiction: The stigma of femininity in James Joyce's "Eveline" and "The Boarding House."
Clearly in Lacan's binary structural linguistics, with its emphasis on the perfect symmetry of metaphor and metonymy, there is no room for this third trope, just as in his rewriting of Bonaparte's analysis of Poe, there is no room for the knob-clitoris.
Jacques Lacan followed Jakobson in connecting metonymy with realism and metaphor with poetry; he asserts: "In a general manner, metonymy animates this style of creation which we call, in opposition to symbolic style and poetic language, the so-called realist style" (266).
It is possible to read Dubliners as an expression of the binary oppositions of "symbolist poetry" and "realist prose," since the stories focus on both a "scrupulous meanness" in representing the details of everyday Dublin life and the transformative power of metaphor with which Joyce associated epiphany.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2455/is_n4_v30/ai_14762709   (969 words)

  
 Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 44, no. 3
We argue that the contiguity- based trope of metonymy is used for two purposes: to objectivize or entextualize the sacred language involved, and to affect reality by creatively indexing specific aspects of the ritual context.
Aspects of the phonetics and phonology of initial and final clusters in the Yakima dialect of Sahaptin (Sahaptian family) are described.
This article evaluates the propensity for ideophones to occur in grammaticalized syntactic frames linked to verbs meaning 'say' or 'do'.
www.indiana.edu /~anthling/v44-3.html   (969 words)

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