Toward a Rhetorical Theory of Metaphor: A Transactive Analysis of Metaphor in the Arts.

Autor/inn/en	Bannister, Linda; und weitere
Titel	Toward a Rhetorical Theory of Metaphor: A Transactive Analysis of Metaphor in the Arts.
Quelle	(1994), (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Communication (Thought Transfer); Higher Education; Humor; Instructional Innovation; Language Role; Literary Criticism; Metaphors; Rhetorical Theory; Team Teaching + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Humoristische Darstellung; Educational Innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Literaturkritik; Teamteaching
Abstract	Three professors at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, reflected about a course they taught together on the use of metaphor in language, art and literature. In examining a wide range of art works with their students, including prose by E. A. Poe, Nancy Mairs, Henry James, and Woody Allen and movies such as "Dr. Strangelove,""Citizen Kane" and "The Birds," they observed that each artist had imbued his or her text with metaphor. These metaphors were not similar thematically but rather structurally and strategically. They noticed that in all cases, metaphor was a discourse act, a transaction between writer, text, and reader. The interdependent acts of writing, reading, and apprehending a metaphor are collectively rhetorical transactions. They are observed that jokes can advance and illustrate theories of metaphor because all jokes and comedy itself can only exist within a metaphoric framework. Humor and comedy rely upon associations and connections made by the hearer of the joke and are thus rhetorical transactions. Finally, the study of metaphor raises issues of epistemology. Paul de Man, in "Epistemology as Metaphor," wonders "whether the metaphors illustrate a cognition or if the cognition is not perhaps shaped by metaphors." While it might be assumed that metaphor stabilizes meaning by making abstract notions picturesquely real, it actually constitutes an act whose essence is a myth, but whose work is self-revealing. The only meaning inherent in metaphors is that of their action upon questionable notions of "experience" or "essence." (Contains course description and other materials, including a writing assignment.) (TB)
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