When Metaphor Becomes Flesh: Reconceptualizing Synaesthetic Metaphors in Becoming Animal

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

When Metaphor Becomes Flesh: Reconceptualizing Synaesthetic Metaphors in Becoming Animal

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

When Metaphor Becomes Flesh: Reconceptualizing Synaesthetic Metaphors in Becoming Animal

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60204 - General literature studies

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio FF, Philologiae

ISSN

0239-426X

e-ISSN

2449-853X

Svazek periodika

43

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

189-201

Kód UT WoS článku

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