Author: Birus, Hendrik
Title: Picturing it: the issue of visuality in the classical theory of metaphor
Review/Collection: "Arcadia", 38, 2
Year edition: 2003
Pages: 314-322
Keywords: Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [Abstract] Image and Metaphor: these terms seem inseparable in traditional theories of metaphor. Indeed, metaphorá and eikón are closely linked in as early a document as Aristotle's Rhetoric (1406b20, 1407a14f, 1410b16–20). And the same is true for essential German contributions to a tradition that has eventually emancipated itself from the confines of rhetoric: A. W. Schlegel's Kunstlehre, Jean Paul'sVorschule der Aesthetik, Hegel's Vorlesungen über die Aesthetik and Nietzsche's Ueber Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinne. In spite of the fundamental differences that separate these oeuvres, they all treat our two terms as two connected notions: “Image” is regarded as a part of the metaphor – and renamed a “vehicle” in modern theory (Richards 1971: 93, 96, 116–118) – whilst metaphor as a whole is filed under the category of “imagery” or “visuality”.
Author initials: Birus 2003
Title: Picturing it: the issue of visuality in the classical theory of metaphor
Review/Collection: "Arcadia", 38, 2
Year edition: 2003
Pages: 314-322
Keywords: Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [Abstract] Image and Metaphor: these terms seem inseparable in traditional theories of metaphor. Indeed, metaphorá and eikón are closely linked in as early a document as Aristotle's Rhetoric (1406b20, 1407a14f, 1410b16–20). And the same is true for essential German contributions to a tradition that has eventually emancipated itself from the confines of rhetoric: A. W. Schlegel's Kunstlehre, Jean Paul'sVorschule der Aesthetik, Hegel's Vorlesungen über die Aesthetik and Nietzsche's Ueber Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinne. In spite of the fundamental differences that separate these oeuvres, they all treat our two terms as two connected notions: “Image” is regarded as a part of the metaphor – and renamed a “vehicle” in modern theory (Richards 1971: 93, 96, 116–118) – whilst metaphor as a whole is filed under the category of “imagery” or “visuality”.
Author initials: Birus 2003
