Tuesday 4 December 2007

my section

I think it should be ordered Mike->Jason->Me->James

Here's my segment... It might be a little short. If you've any ideas on how it could be bulked up a bit, that'd help:


Metaphor – more precise medium for representing memory
-> Meaning is elusive, buried in text
Use a metaphor to demonstrate:
137. ‘On the map of history, perhaps the water stain is memory’
- The elusive, the barely visible; metaphor operates in the same way

Multifaceted metaphor
-> Several diff. metaphors applied to indiv. objects
-> Multiple perspective seen through multiple equation

-> Goatly/Halliday perspective of grammatical metaphor as more vs. less suitable for representing scientific abstractions

Criglington – demonstrates the focus of the metaphor
-> Interdisciplinary and academic – e.g. geology, physics, archaeology

Geological example:
p86 – ‘in xenetia – in exile,” said Athos on our last night with Daphne and Kostas in their garden, “in a foreign landscape, a man discovers the old songs. He calls out for water from his own well, for apples from his own orchard, for the Muscat grapes from his own vine’

- The idea of blood history/memory; comparison with the well of NGM
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Metaphor relates to narrative drive – the return to their origins

Archeological metaphor:
279. 'They dug the bodies out of the ground. They put their bare hands not only into death, not only into the syrups and bacteria of the body, but into emotions, beliefs, confessions. One man's memories then another's, thousands whose lives it was their duty to imagine...'

- Relationship between body/soul (literal/metaphorical)
- Visceral/visible vs. Elusive

Meira Cook – accuses metaphorical over-usage – Nazi restriction of the figurative
-> Michaels demonstrating the adaptability of language – its resilience over oppression

1 comment:

Michael Leader said...

Great stuff, David. I've almost finished typing up my section.