Rethinking Metonymy: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 107883298
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198724278
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph (336 pages, c. 120,000 words, 530 bibliography entries in eight languages), makes a triple intervention in literary theory, translation studies, and classical literary criticism. It offers a new theory of metonymy as a literary trope, based on evaluating a large text corpus from Greek lyric and tragic poetry, German romantic and classicizing poetry, and Greek tragedy in German translation. In addition to clarifying the functional principle and aesthetic effects of metonymy itself, this book, developed from my PhD, demonstrates the new theory’s far-reaching implications for (post-)structuralist invocations of metonymy across the disciplines and practical translation criticism.
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- Non-English
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