Essays about: "Monroe C. Beardsley"

Found 2 essays containing the words Monroe C. Beardsley.

1. 1. Reading with Reference - A Study of the Limits of Formalist Criticism

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Isak Hyltén-Cavallius; [2011]
   Keywords : Reference; Formalism; Hermeneutics; Ricoeur; Beardsley; The Rule of Metaphore; Aesthetics Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis intends to point out the limits of exclusively formalist literary criticism. To locate these limits with precision the thesis contrasts the formalist criticism of Monroe C. Beardsley with the critical hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. READ MORE

3. 2. An Application of Monroe C. Beardsley's Controverion Theory of Metaphor – On Examples of Synaesthetic Metaphor from Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

   Author : Isak Hyltén-Cavallius; [2009]
   Keywords : Monroe C. Beardsley; Controversion Theory of Metaphor; Controversion Theory; Metaphor; Metafor; Proust; Metaphor Theory; Metaforteori; Synaesthetic Metaphor; Sinnesanalogi; Subjectivity; Subjektivitet; Connotation; Konnotation; Culture; Kultur; Explication; Explikation; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis is to go head to head with metaphor theory and to humbly try to wrestle from the enormous structure of facts and hypotheses that such theories form collectively, one theory that might favorably be used to study another interesting phenomenon. This phenomenon is the variety of metaphor that is encouraging of synaesthesia, called simply synaesthetic metaphor. READ MORE