GRGR(20) "Young Fool"

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

See David Lodge. The Modes of Modern Writing. Metaphor,
Metonymy and the Typology of Modern Literature (1977).

Lodge's approach to Pynchon draws on Roman Jakobson's
bipolar scheme of literature and he argues that Pynchon's
style attempts to go beyond both metaphor and metonymy.  

jbor wrote:
> 
> Good post. I've never been able to get a proper handle on this
> metonymy/metaphor distinction, however. Mendelson appropriates it in his
> definition of the "encyclopedic narrative" (the Intro to his *Collection of
> Critical Essays*, p.9), and I think it derives from Roman Jakobson and
> Morris Halle's work on aphasia. Anyway, I think I understand the way Berlin
> functions as a cipher for the rest of politically-partitioned and regulated
> world outside the anarchic Zone, but how is it metonymyic?
> 
> best
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> >From: jp4321 at idt.net (jporter)
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: GRGR(20) "Young Fool"
> >Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2000, 1:30 PM
> >
> 
> > Viking, 441.3, we read;
> >
> >   "'Young Fool,' Saure now comes cackling in from out in Berlin."
> >
> > Emil, a witch of sorts- a wiz if ever a wiz there was- wizened by
> > experience, comes in *from Berlin,* which, presumably, is a stand in for
> > everything else *out there,* a narrative distinction or boundary thus
> > subtley created by metonymy. Of course, like the wiz, it was Emil who sent
> > S out after the hash, in order to win approval and a trip back to Kansas,
> > presumably by S-gerat. Who needs ruby slippers?
> 
> snip
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