Essays about: "reading process and metaphor"

Found 5 essays containing the words reading process and metaphor.

  1. 1. Rollen av det poetiska språket i "Den Nya Vetenskapen" av Giambattista Vico

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Maresca Massimo; [2021-07-05]
    Keywords : kropp; retorik; Vico; sensus communis; metafor; repetition;

    Abstract : In the seventeenth century the Italian rhetorician Giambattista Vico imagined the history of human civilization in his major work The New Science. He conceived the progression of humanity from barbarism along the way towards the construction of a self-conscious mind, the highest and final achievement of human development. READ MORE

  3. 2. Touching From a Distance: Towards a Resonance Theory of Metaphor Understanding

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

    Author : Isak Nyman; [2021]
    Keywords : Metaphor; Understanding; Poetry; Cognitive Science; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Embodiment; Resonance; Philosophy and Religion; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The present thesis suggests a new type of theory from which to analyse metaphorical language. This new theory is motivated by shortcomings from the available theories (most notably Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Embodied Metaphor Theory) in analysing metaphors in poetry. READ MORE

  4. 3. Mise-En-Page - An Introduction To Screenplay Style & Form

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Ammar Al Subahi; [2012]
    Keywords : Screenplay; Screenwriting; Manus; Scriptwriting; Manusförfattande; Authorship; Auteur theory; Auteur-teori; Blueprint Metaphor; Pasolini; Steven Price; Steven Maras; Mise-en-page; mise-en-scene; Proto-Camera; Reading as Image Building; The Final Broadcast; Filmvetenskap; Film Studies; Filmteori; Film Theory; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to establish the screenplay as a valid, and relevant, object for study in the field of film studies in order to stimulate further research within the field and for a more prevalent inclusion of screenplays in the general discourse of film studies. I argue that accounts of the screenplay as either literature or blueprints, which stand in ideological opposition to each other, are lackluster as they overemphasize the virtues of their own side of the spectrum while at the same time undervaluing the other side; neither accounting for their own vices. READ MORE

  5. 4. 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

  6. 5. Punning Exploiting External and Internal Metaphors : A Study of Groucho Marx's Use of Metaphor Reversal

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Kalle Larsson; [2007]
    Keywords : polysemy; punning; metaphor reversal; figurative meaning; literal meaning; internal metaphor; external metaphor; idiom; continuum; universe of discourse;

    Abstract : The aim of this study has been to analyse metaphorical strings which have been interpreted literally, a process referred to as metaphor reversal. This was first described by Löflund (1999:18) and the specific term was later coined by Alm-Arvius (2006:6). Metaphor reversal is basically a subcategory of the broader term polysemy punning. READ MORE