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.