Conventional and Original Metaphors in French Autobiography

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Buch | Hardcover
271 Seiten
2009 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-0324-7 (ISBN)

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Conventional and Original Metaphors in French Autobiography - Madalina Akli
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This book studies three autobiographies, each of which is at least partially devoid of chronological structure: Sartre’s The Words, Perec’s W or The Memory of Childhood, and Sarraute’s Childhood. Calendar-based order, traditionally associated with autobiography, fails to provide the coherence the readers expect. Hence, readers must create a sense of coherence at another level by using their conceptual resources. Conventional and Original Metaphors in French Autobiography reveals that in these literary texts coherence is maintained based on the exploitation of conventional metaphors taken from everyday language, which the autobiographers transform in a creative yet familiar manner. These common metaphors offer guidance to readers and establish coherence between the shared life experiences of reader and autobiographer. In the course of reading, the autobiographers’ and the readers’ life experiences overlap through familiar metaphors, which serve as organizational devices in writing and as guiding principles in reading.

The Author: Madalina Akli is Assistant Professor of French at Sam Houston State University in Texas. She received her M.A. in French linguistics from Sorbonne University and her Ph.D. in French studies from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.4.2009
Reihe/Serie Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 165
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures ; 165
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 630 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Romanistik
ISBN-10 1-4331-0324-9 / 1433103249
ISBN-13 978-1-4331-0324-7 / 9781433103247
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