Word: metaphoritis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Marsalis sees jazz as a metaphor for democracy. "In terms of illuminating the meaning of America," he says, "jazz is the primary art form, especially New Orleans jazz. Because when it's played properly, it shows you how the individual can negotiate the greatest amount of personal freedom and put it humbly at the service of a group conception." He points to Ellington as the jazzman who best embodied the "mythology of this country" in his music...
INTERROGATION. A Polish woman (Krystyna Janda) is arrested and tortured by the state, then bears her inquisitor's child -- a poignant metaphor for a generation of Poles sired in fear. Ryszard Bugajski's political horror movie, banned for eight years, plays like a suicide note smuggled out of the Gulag...
...like the title. It was orginally titiled Mistakes of Metaphor and my friends still call it that, but my publicist thought it sounded like a grammar book. The present title was taken from a phrase in the book by my agent...
...fact, it is precisely because of the limits he places on his poetic demesne that Heaney gains an almost unlimited expressive control. For instead of moving outwards, he burrows "inwards and downwards," sifting the Irish soil and Irish soul for meaning and metaphor, retraversing locales and themes until the subtlest shifts and shadings take on great meaning. He delves, too, into his own and his country's past and finds them richly veined with continuities...
...many of his earlier works, particularly, Heaney shows a fascination with the metaphor of archaeology. In poems selected from his books Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975), he deals at length with the "bog people," prehistoric humans whose bodies scientists have recovered, almost perfectly preserved, from peat bogs in Denmark. These long-buried victims of "tribal, intimate revenge" become symbols of the collective subconscious of their modern descendants...