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metaphor, negation, and silence

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: ABOUT THIS BOOK ix
I. INTRODUCTION: THE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE INEXPRESSIBILITY TOPOS IN
EUROPEAN LITERATURE
2. EUGENIO MONTALE AND THE
INEXPRESSIBLE '5
Writing: Expression or Creation? 15
Identifying the Inexpressible 29
Re-Evaluating Terms 47
3. METAPHOR AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 49
Disparity and Tension 52
Defamiliarization 6i
Networks of Metaphor 70
The Montalian 'Object' 76
4. NEGATION 97
Hypothesis and Doubt 97
The via negativa Ioi
The Way of De-Anthropomorphism 103
The Way of Erasure 112
The Way of Contradiction I30
Negation: The Rhetoric of Failure? 140
5. SILENCE I45
Silence: The Potent Myth I46
The Purpose of Silence i51
Silence as Withholding: The Woman and God164
Silence as Withholding: Secrecy and Mystery 71
APPENDIX 177
BIBLIOGRAPHY 18o
GENERAL INDEX 193.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-191) and index.

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Oxford [U.K.], New York
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Oxford modern languages and literature monographs

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851/.912
Library of Congress
PQ4829.O565 Z56956 2002, PQ4829.O565Z56956

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xi, 196 p. ;
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196

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OL3954802M
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0199248982
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2001054555
Library Thing
9509839
Goodreads
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