When Metaphor Becomes Flesh: Reconceptualizing Synaesthetic Metaphors in Becoming Animal
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angličtina
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When Metaphor Becomes Flesh: Reconceptualizing Synaesthetic Metaphors in Becoming Animal
Original language description
This paper explores David Abram’s non-fiction work Becoming Animal, highlighting, how his extensive use of metaphorical language reveals and enacts the embodied character of human experience. The physical dimension of metaphor invites the reader to sense the protagonist’s carnality as resonating within their own body, and through this heightened bodily awareness, to experience a reciprocal exchange with the world – a process frequently conveyed in the text through synaesthetic metaphors. This article argues that our very embodiment enables a natural union of the senses, thereby challenging the Aristotelian model of five distinct senses and calling into question the status of so- called synaesthetic metaphors – since, grounded in lived experience, they may no longer be either strictly “synaesthetic” or merely “metaphorical.” The paper employs conceptual metaphor theory as its primary framework, complemented by phenomenological insights from Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
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Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
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OECD FORD branch
60204 - General literature studies
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio FF, Philologiae
ISSN
0239-426X
e-ISSN
2449-853X
Volume of the periodical
43
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
189-201
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