Word: metaphor
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...prize is a 144-year-old Victorian ewer fashioned from 134 oz. of British silver. The ornate vessel happens to be bottomless -- a fitting metaphor for a race whose victors could wind up paying more than half a million dollars an ounce for their trophy. For the bankers, industry barons and one drapery manufacturer who are battling through the semifinal rounds off San Diego this week, the 28th America's Cup competition is not just a matter of money. It is a spiritual quest that combines courage and seamanship with hubris and high technology. Yet deep pockets seem...
When God dispels Adam and Eve from Eden, the changelings strip the set of all color. They deface the tree and remove the colored cloths that represent the spirit of Eden, which reduces the set to blackness and acts as a metaphor for the darkness which surrounds the couple's existence after their expulsion...
...Many of your novels seem to include a type of structural leitmotif or metaphor. What I mean, for example, is that in Nice Work, the character Robyn explains to us what the 19th century Industrial Novel was, and your actual novel fits that description. How does this happen in Paradise News? Are you using genre as mechanism...
...your criticism, a fundamental distinction you seem to be very interested in is that between metaphor and metonymy, and you characterize classical literature as essentially metonymic, and modernist literature as metaphoric. Could you fit your own work into this paradigm...
Rifkin is using beef as a metaphor for all that has gone rotten in the modern world, wrongs that he attributes to a metaphysical loss of humans' | sacred relationship to nature. And cattle, because of their prominent role in ancient mythology and their haunting presence in prehistoric pictographs, lend themselves well to this moralistic exercise...