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Saturday, August 2, 2014

The Warrenpoint Puzzle

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:12 pm

From a review of Metaphor , by Denis Donoghue
(Harvard University Press, 2014)—

“Donoghue brings a lovely confessional element to his analysis.
As a student, he says, he

loved Latin, the foreignness of it….
In Warrenpoint I sang the syllables….”

“Donoghue concedes points, finds faults, develops his own memories
to arrive at hybrid personal-critical museum-piece definitions of metaphor.
Interrogating Richards’s tenor/vehicle distinction, Donoghue observes
that ‘metaphor is the mutual relation of tenor and vehicle,
a relation achieved by holding the two simultaneously in one’s mind’ –
but, he points out, ‘How that is done is a puzzle.'”

— Lianne Habinek in Open Letters Monthly

See also Log24 posts of June 26, 2014.

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