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January 27, 2005
a starting point:
white's "moves":
- creation of a "metaphorical apprehension of a 'strange' and 'threatening' reality"
- "metonymic dispersion of its elements into the contiguities of the series"
- "synecdochic characterization of the field under scrutiny"
- "ironic reflection on the characterization with respect to the elements which resist includsion..." (6)
Posted by ttobryan at January 27, 2005 09:39 AM
Comments
I was going to ask and got distracted by other blog issues... do you see this use of "apprehension" as a) anxiety
b) capture/mastery/managing/control
c) comprehension/learning, as in the old use, eg "I apprehend his intention is to invade Belgium"? -clo
Posted by: clo at January 27, 2005 01:56 PM
don't ask me, b/c i have no idea what he meant. i'm doing well to have found & been able to put in order these continuous phrases at all.
i have this extra-textual bit of smarts to contribute instead: c.s. lewis on metaphor (via janet emig, whom i'm reading for 720) makes a distinction (in "bluspels and flalanferes" p. 40) between the master's use of metaphor—-as an instructional method for leading learners to understand something that the selected similarities demonstrate, wherein the instructor already comprehends both the similarity and its limitations--and the pupil's, wherein a learner constructs a metaphor as a necessary bridge between a known and unknown. in the first case metaphor creation is optional, voluntary; in the second it's the only way understanding is possible.
Posted by: tyratae at January 29, 2005 05:47 PM