The rhetoric of exile : duress and the imagining of force
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 1323466
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Modern Humanities Research Association
- ISBN
- 9781910887059
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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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
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 82,000-word (184pp) monograph draws on legal and literary studies to develop a new approach to exile and migration. Articulating the concept of ‘implied exile’, it argues that the force of exile is concealed in law by metonymic displacement and then polemically revealed in literature by metaphoric condensation. Through a series of comparative analyses of texts by nine writers in seven languages, ranging from the Roman Republic to the twentieth century, it explores the durable, intrinsically tropological link between legal and literary articulations of exile and gives a radically political vector to earlier theories of metaphor and metonymy.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Chapters 1, 5 and part of 3 were originally published as: 'Banished with no force: exile and metonymy in Cicero's Pro Caecina Oratio' (2012); 'Radiating nests: metalingual tropes in poetry of exile' (2010); and 'The furies of Orestes: constructing persecutory agency in narratives of exile in the book' (2008); all submitted to REF2014.
Chapters 1 and 5 underwent little change, while 3 was substantially expanded with new sections and writers and now stands at 18,750 words. ca. 32,500 words out of a total of 82,500 were published in the previous REF cycle.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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