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M. Akli, Conventional and Original Metaphors in French Autobiography

M. Akli, Conventional and Original Metaphors in French Autobiography

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)

AKLI, Madalina, Conventional and Original Metaphors in French Autobiography, Oxford / Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Frankfurt am Main / New York / Wien, Peter Lang (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures), 2009, 284 p.

ISBN 978-1-4331-0324-7

RÉSUMÉ

This book studies three autobiographies, each of which is at least partially devoid of chronological structure: Sartre's The Words, Perec's W or The Memory of Childhood, and Sarraute's Childhood.Calendar-based order, traditionally associated with autobiography,fails to provide the coherence the readers expect. Hence, readers mustcreate a sense of coherence at another level by using their conceptualresources. Conventional and Original Metaphors in French Autobiographyreveals that in these literary texts coherence is maintained based onthe exploitation of conventional metaphors taken from everydaylanguage, which the autobiographers transform in a creative yetfamiliar manner. These common metaphors offer guidance to readers andestablish coherence between the shared life experiences of reader andautobiographer. In the course of reading, the autobiographers' and thereaders' life experiences overlap through familiar metaphors, whichserve as organizational devices in writing and as guiding principles inreading.

BIOGRAPHIE

Madalina Akli is Assistant Professor of French at Sam Houston StateUniversity in Texas. She received her M.A. in French linguistics fromSorbonne University and her Ph.D. in French studies from RiceUniversity in Houston, Texas.