James W. Underhill
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748643158
- eISBN:
- 9780748651566
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643158.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language
Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the ...
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Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States. The book then widens the scope of metaphor theory by investigating not only the worldview our language offers us, but also the worldviews that we adapt in our own ideological and personal interpretations of the world. The book explores new avenues in metaphor theory in the work of contemporary French, German, and Czech scholars. Detailed case studies marry metaphor theory with discourse analysis in order to investigate the ways the Czech language was reshaped by communist discourse, and the way fascism emerged in the German language. The third case study turns metaphor theory on its head: instead of looking for metaphors in language, it describes the way language systems (French and English) are understood in terms of metaphorically framed concepts evolving over time.Less
Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States. The book then widens the scope of metaphor theory by investigating not only the worldview our language offers us, but also the worldviews that we adapt in our own ideological and personal interpretations of the world. The book explores new avenues in metaphor theory in the work of contemporary French, German, and Czech scholars. Detailed case studies marry metaphor theory with discourse analysis in order to investigate the ways the Czech language was reshaped by communist discourse, and the way fascism emerged in the German language. The third case study turns metaphor theory on its head: instead of looking for metaphors in language, it describes the way language systems (French and English) are understood in terms of metaphorically framed concepts evolving over time.
Evgeny Dobrenko
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748634453
- eISBN:
- 9780748653607
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634453.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines the role of Russian classic literature in Stalinist cinema. It explains that the coding of life by a classic writer and its decoding by an adept director guaranteed that the ...
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This chapter examines the role of Russian classic literature in Stalinist cinema. It explains that the coding of life by a classic writer and its decoding by an adept director guaranteed that the screen event will not only be credible, but will live on through the ages. The chapter describes the processes through which reality is distilled into literature and then, through ideological interpretation in criticism, into film. It cites Yakov Protazanov's film Without a Dowry and Ivan Pyrev's The Swineherdess and the Shepherd as exemplars of Stalinist art.Less
This chapter examines the role of Russian classic literature in Stalinist cinema. It explains that the coding of life by a classic writer and its decoding by an adept director guaranteed that the screen event will not only be credible, but will live on through the ages. The chapter describes the processes through which reality is distilled into literature and then, through ideological interpretation in criticism, into film. It cites Yakov Protazanov's film Without a Dowry and Ivan Pyrev's The Swineherdess and the Shepherd as exemplars of Stalinist art.
