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Title: | 'Wherefore sweetheart? What's your metaphor?': Figurative Language and the Historical Work of the Literary Text | Contributor(s): | Noble, Louise (author) | Publication Date: | 2003 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4861 | Abstract: | History is at the center of figurative language, which is anchored in its own cultural moment but is also an evolving product of its own linguistic past and temporal relations. In this paper I argue that a consideration of figurative language, understood as an ideologically significant cultural practice, is essential to any discussion of the relation of literary form to the new historicist project. If we contemplate the notion that literary form is the index of history, then figurative language is its mode of record. Our world is constituted figuratively; the tensions, fissures and paradoxes created by the competing figurations that frequently disturb early modern literary texts, and the contradictions and anxieties of the society and culture to which these texts belong, are deeply implicated in one another. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | GEMCS 2003: 11th Annual Conference for the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies: 'History, Authority, Performance', Newport Beach, United States of America, 23rd - 26th October, 2003 | Source of Publication: | Presented at the 11th Annual Conference for the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS): 'History, Authority, Performance' | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950199 Arts and Leisure not elsewhere classified | HERDC Category Description: | E3 Extract of Scholarly Conference Publication | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/CFPs/cfp200301311.htm |
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