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Metaphor is of vital concern to the discipline of literary studies as well as the field of animal studies. Drawing on Jacques Derrida s philosophy and Paul Ric ur s tropology, this book studies the spectrality of metaphor in relation to animal figures in D.H. Lawrence s The Rainbow, H.D. s Asphodel, and Virginia Woolf s The Waves. The analyses show that metaphor and animals alike can invite literarity a textual hospitality toward otherness into a work. In this, Trejling confronts the notion of metaphor as substitutional a metaphysical idea prevalent in animal studies and the posthumanities. In challenging this perception, Metaphor, Animals, Modernism demonstrates that the spectrality of metaphor can make literature a site where readers can encounter a creature not to name, tame, or train it, but to speak to it, and to await its response.
List of contents
Chapter 01: INTRODUCTION. METAPHOR, LITERARITY, AND THE SUBSTITUTIONAL FALLACY.- Chapter 02: ANIMATING METAPHOR.- Chapter 03: TOUCHING FIGURES IN D.H. LAWRENCE S THE RAINBOW.- Chapter 04: WRITING VISIONS IN H.D. S ASPHODEL.- Chapter 05: SINGING THE INTERVALS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF S THE WAVES.- Chapter 06: TAILING SPECTERS: CONCLUDING REMARKS.
About the author
Maria Trejling
is Postdoctoral Fellow at Halmstad University, Sweden. Her research explores the modes of reading demanded by literature. She received her PhD from Stockholm University, Sweden, with a dissertation awarded by the Swedish Academy as a laudable work in Literary Studies.
Summary
Metaphor is of vital concern to the discipline of literary studies as well as the field of animal studies. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s philosophy and Paul Ricœur’s tropology, this book studies the spectrality of metaphor in relation to animal figures in D.H. Lawrence’s
The Rainbow
, H.D.’s
Asphodel
, and Virginia Woolf’s
The Waves
. The analyses show that metaphor and animals alike can invite literarity—a textual hospitality toward otherness—into a work. In this, Trejling confronts the notion of metaphor as substitutional—a metaphysical idea prevalent in animal studies and the posthumanities. In challenging this perception,
Metaphor, Animals, Modernism
demonstrates that the spectrality of metaphor can make literature a site where readers can encounter a creature—not to name, tame, or train it, but to speak to it, and to await its response.
