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Illness As Metaphor? The Role Of Linguistic Categories In The History Of Medicine , Ulrike Kistner
Illness As Metaphor? The Role Of Linguistic Categories In The History Of Medicine , Ulrike Kistner
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Susan Soniag's studies on "Illness and Metaphor" raise a host of questions, based on the twin suppositions running through her project: the ubiquity and pervasiveness of metaphoric constructions of illness on the one hand, and the vision of a liberation from metaphors of illness on the other hand. This paper sets itself the task to explain and resolve this paradox. To this end, concepts of metaphor have to be linguistically defined and differentiated, both structurally and within an archaeology of (medical) knowledge; for it is only on the basis of such a differentiation that we can show how metaphorical language …
Paul Celan's Linguistic Mysticism, Shira Wolosky
Paul Celan's Linguistic Mysticism, Shira Wolosky
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Paul Celan's works often seem to grant to language an autonomy that isolates poetic from extra-poetic concerns, including religious ones. The status of language in Celan, however, should be assessed in the context of its status within Judaic mysticism. While the importance of mysticism for Celan has been recognized, the degree to which Judaic mysticism differs from other mystical traditions has been less so. This is especially true with regard to the place given to language in the Kabbalah, and the structures and assumptions that its conception of language implies. Of importance to Celan, for example, is the Kabbalistic notion …
The Nature Of Meaning Of Stories In Conversation, Livia Polanyi
The Nature Of Meaning Of Stories In Conversation, Livia Polanyi
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Although everyday stories told in the course of ongoing conversations are as open to multiple readings as many literary texts, the participants in the conversational storytelling situation must assign a meaning to a given telling of a story in order to facilitate the absorption of the story into the state of general talk which normally obtains. In the present paper, work done by the American linguistic school of narrative analysis (as begun by Labov and Waletzky and further developed by the author of this paper) is brought together with insights into conversational storytelling from ethno-methodological conversation analysts (Sacks, Jefferson, etc.) …