Word: metaphorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Language and metaphor dominate Winterson's writing, which includes such well-received novels as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body. Her storytelling, however, gets lost in tales that at times seem written by a poet forced that to write fiction. Revealingly her most stunning piece is titled "The poetics of Sex." In it says of her lover: "How she fats me. She plumps me, pats me, squeezes and feeds me. Feed me up with lust till I'm as fat as she is." Such language, with its musicality and carefree rhymes reads...
...language never rivals the story in The Queen of the Mist; rather, the spare imagery Murray painstakingly inserts allows the heartbreaking story to tell itself without unnecessary flourishes. Images of birth, death and rebirth permeate the poem's language, providing the strongest continual layer of metaphor within the poem. The barrel, Annie's self-made womb, becomes in the end Annie's self-made tomb as Annie watches herself disintegrate within the short and petty memory of history. Eventually she is even called an imposter when the idealistic collective imagination consumes memory and literally recreates "Annie Taylor" into a blonde...
Throughout the article, both the writer and the conservative students interviewed used phrases and metaphors commonly associated with being queer, while never admitting the connection. Anne L. Berry '00 asserted the dinner was not "a statement about other groups commonly associated with coming out events." What "other groups" might those be? Coming out has become equated with the experience of homosexuality or transgenderism, but Berry refuses to come out and say it. It is impossible to divide such a metaphor from its common usage; to use the term coming out so irresponsibly is to do harm to the youth...
Throughout the article, both the writer and the conservative students interviewed used phrases and metaphors commonly associated with being queer, while never admitting the connection. Anne L. Berry '00 asserted the dinner was not "a statement about other groups commonly associated with coming out events.'" What "other groups" might those be? Coming out has become equated with the experience of homosexuality or transgenderism, but Berry refuses to come out and say it. It is impossible to divide such a metaphor from its common usage; to use the term coming out so irresponsibly is to do harm to the youth...
What am I talking about? Here's a metaphor: to the Japanese, the highly-dangerous Fugu fish is a great delicacy. Handled and prepared carefully, it can be relished without concern. But the fish contains a fatal poison in its skin known as tetrodotoxin, which can kill in minutes. So it is with our relationship to the past: if we approach it thoughtfully, it can provide a kind of nourishment for our lives in the present. The great danger of history is cheap nostalgia, seducing us into loving the past simply because...