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Book SynopsisThe book sets out identity of metaphor in the literary discourse from a comparative perspective and links it with the ontological metaphor of identity. The author analyses both American and Romanian texts such as Lucian Blaga’s lyrosophical hermeneutics, Ileana Mălăncioiu, Mariana Marin and Sylvia Plath’s lyrical tirades, and Max Blecher’s poetic novels. She points out that ipseity is a trace of the postmodern bivalent condition that uses the vivid metaphor mechanism to describe its ontological lability as strength.
Table of ContentsThe Identity of Metaphor – Philosophical Discourse – The autonomy of metaphor – Cognition and method in Lucian Blaga’s philosophical discourse – The Metaphor of Identity – Poetic Discourse – Metamorphoses in confessional poetry – Textual identities – personal identity in the Romanian women’s poetry of the 70’s and 80’s – Romanian-American shifting – Sylvia Plath – Mariana Marin – Ileana Mălăncioiu – Hybrid Narrative Discourse – Max Blecher – narrative ipseity – au dedans/au dehors perspectives.
