Activity 5: CM in literary discourse
Aggregazione dei criteri
It’s flattering to believe that you and only you, the great lover, could have done this. That without you, the marriage, incomplete though it is, pathetic in many ways, would have thrived on its meagre diet and if not thrived at least not shrivelled. It has shrivelled, lies limp and unused, the shell of a marriage, its inhabitants both fled. People collect shells though don’t they? They spend money on them and display them on their window ledges. Other people admire them. I’ve seen some very famous shells and blown into the hollows of many more. Where I’ve left cracking too severe to mend the owners have simply turned the bad part to the shade.
What conceptual metaphors does the narrator use in her description of love and this relationship? If there is more than one, are they used in combination? Are any of the conceptual metaphors elaborated, extended, or questioned?
Aperto: lunedì, 10 ottobre 2022, 14:00
Data limite: martedì, 11 ottobre 2022, 19:00
Read the following extract from Jeannette Winterson’s (1992: 15) novel Written on the Body:
It’s flattering to believe that you and only you, the great lover, could have done this. That without you, the marriage, incomplete though it is, pathetic in many ways, would have thrived on its meagre diet and if not thrived at least not shrivelled. It has shrivelled, lies limp and unused, the shell of a marriage, its inhabitants both fled. People collect shells though don’t they? They spend money on them and display them on their window ledges. Other people admire them. I’ve seen some very famous shells and blown into the hollows of many more. Where I’ve left cracking too severe to mend the owners have simply turned the bad part to the shade.
Source: Gibbons,
and Whiteley (2018) Contemporary
Stylistics. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, p. 219
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