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The monograph argues for a return to a more fine-grained repertoire of tropes than the limiting analyses focused on metaphor or on the metaphor-metonymy duet. A list of ten master tropes is proposed, not only as candidates for tropological universals but also important text-forming strategies and a reflection of artistic imagination. The author presents a three-layered model of their organization into micro-, macro- and mega-/metatropes that partake in the construal of tropological space and figurative worlds. The book brings together Anglo-American and French-language philosophy of rhetoric, cognitive studies, and a tradition of Russian formalistic-semiotic research. It straddles the boundary between linguistic and literary stylistics as well as between post-structural and cognitive poetics, pointing also to an interdisciplinary nature of tropes.
List of contents
Contents: Master tropes of artistic imagination and language - Microtropes, macrotropes, mega-/metatropes as text-forming strategies and modes of discourse - Metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, simile, antithesis, catachresis, euphemia, suppression, hyperbole - Tropes in the unconscious - Tropological universals - Tropological space - Figurative worlds.
About the author
El¿bieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska is a professor of linguistics in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research fields are general and literary semantics, linguistic stylistics and philosophy of language. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the
Journal of Literary Semantics.
