Symbolism 2018 : : Special Focus: "Cranes on the Rise" - Functions of Metaphor in Autobiographical Writing /

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

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 c...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 224 p.)
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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

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