Metaphor and narrative

Authors

  • Marina Grishakova Department of Comparative Literature, University of Tartu, Ülikooli 17, 50090 Tartu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2001.29.2.06

Abstract

The paper examines linguistic, cognitive, communicative approaches to metaphor and its functioning in the narrative text. Special attention is paid to the problem of iconicity and the Wingensteinian notion of "aspect seeing" as relevant to the metaphor srudies. It is shown that the extended understanding of metaphor as "trope" or "figure" in the post-structuralist literary theory allows to see metaphor as a textual "interpretation machine". In the process of interaction of narrative and figurative patterns, metaphor functions as a means of perspectivization, i.e. representation of consciousness. In the literary text, perspective changes permanently and the subsequent configurations have an impact on the previous ones: there occurs a permanent "feedback" and correlation.

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Published

2001-12-31

How to Cite

Grishakova, M. (2001). Metaphor and narrative. Sign Systems Studies, 29(2), 503–517. https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2001.29.2.06

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