Symbolism 2018 : : Special Focus: "Cranes on the Rise" - Functions of Metaphor in Autobiographical Writing / / ed. by Rüdiger Ahrens, Florian Kläger, Klaus Stierstorfer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Ahrens, Rüdiger,; Dickel, Simon,; Drewniak, Dagmara,; Hegland, Anna,; Klaeger, Florian,; Koch, Evelyn,; Linke, Gabriele,; Marks, Christine,; Missinne, Lut,; Quabeck, Franziska,; Rzepa, Agnieszka,; Sarkowsky, Katja,; Stewart, Jack,; Stierstorfer, Klaus,; Thiemann, Anna,; Tronicke, Marlena,
• HerausgeberIn: Ahrens, Rüdiger,; Kläger, Florian,; Stierstorfer, Klaus,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics , 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 224 p.)

This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in life writing. Looking at a range of autobiographical subgenres (pathography, disability narratives, memoirs of migration, autofiction) and different kinds of metaphors, the contributions seek to ‘map’ the possibilities of metaphor for narratively framing an individual life and for constructing notions of selfhood.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword from the Editors -- Table of Contents -- Special Focus: “Cranes on the Rise”: Metaphors in Life Writing -- “Cranes on the Rise”: Metaphors in Life Writing. An Introduction -- Metaphor, Myth, and Universality in Eve Ensler’s In the Body of the World -- Homology, Analogy, and Metaphor in Kenny Fries’s The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory -- Phenomenology and the Memoirs of Stephen Kuusisto -- About Vegetables and Depths in Life: Metaphors in the Autobiographical Work of Atte Jongstra -- Metaphors of Interrelatedness in Lorna Crozier’s Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir -- Language as Metaphor: Functions of Metalinguistic Reflection in European Migrants’ Life Writing -- ‘Between Recipes and Stories’: Food as Metaphor for Identity – Marusya Bociurkiw’s Comfort Food for Breakups and Laura Elise Taylor’s A Taste for Paprika -- “Writing is Not Homecoming”: André Aciman’s Autobiographical Essays -- General Section -- Fairytale Elements in D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and “The Man Who Loved Islands” -- Dirt and Dickens’s Symbolic Realism in Bleak House -- Book Reviews -- Adam Scovell. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange -- Rhodri Lewis. Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness -- Antonija Primorac. Neo-Victorianism on Screen: Postfeminism and Contemporary Adaptations of Victorian Women -- List of Contributors -- Index