Catachresis

Abstract: One of the distinct effects of the recent emergence of postcolonial criticism has been to force a radical rethinking and reformulation of forms of knowledge and social identities authored and authorized by colonialism and Western domination. For this reason, it has also created a ferment in the field of knowledge. This is not to say that colonialism and its legacies remained unquestioned until recently: nationalism and Marxism come immediately to mind as powerful challenges to colonialism. But both of these operated with master-narratives that put Europe at its center. Thus, when nationalism, reversing Orientalist thought, attributed agency and history to the subjected nation, it also staked a claim to the order of Reason and Progress instituted by colonialism; and when Marxists pilloried colonialism, their criticism was framed by a universalist mode-of-production narrative. Recent postcolonial criticism, on the other hand, seeks to undo the Eurocentrism produced by the institution of the West's trajectory, its appropriation of the other as History. It does so, however, with the acute realization that postcoloniality is not born and nurtured in a panoptic distance from history. The postcolonial exists as an aftermath, as an after – after being worked over by colonialism. Criticism formed in this process of the enunciation of discourses of domination occupies a space that is neither inside nor outside the history of Western domination but in a tangential relation to it. This is what Homi Bhabha (1989) calls an in-between, hybrid position of practice and negotiation, or what Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1990) terms catachresis; “reversing, displacing, and seizing the apparatus of value-coding.”

Abstract: Part 1: Science 1 The Ways of Stargazing: Newtonian Metaphoricity in American Foreign Policy 2 Slippery Slopes in Political Discourse 3 Mechanical Metaphors in Politics Part 2: Structures 4 Metaphors of Social Order 5 Metaphors of Solidarity 6 Exploring the Metaphorical (De-)Construction of Legitimacy Part 3: Europe 7 Identifying and Assessing Metaphors 8 Discursive Metaphor Analysis 9 Political Protest and Metaphor Part 4: Sexuality 10 Real Construction through Metaphorical Language: How Animals and Machines (Amongst other Metaphors) Maketh (Hu)Man (What 'He' Is) 11 Data, Anecdote and Metaphor in Gender Equality Policy-Making: Merging 'Intellectual and Real World Mainstreaming' 12 Metaphors, Mini-Narratives and Foucauldian Discourse Theory Part 5: Policy 13 Metaphor, Catachresis and Equivalence 14 Love and Life in Heartless Town 15 Cognition Meets Action Part 6: Language 16 The Application of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Political Discourse: Methodological Questions and Some Possible Solutions 17 Metaphorical Moves: 'Scientific Expertise' in Research Policy Studies 18 A Metaphorical Election Style

Abstract: Part 1 Writing women in the golden age: women's studies and feminist theory Teresa and the mystic body Zayas and women's language a chance of life. Part 2 Gongora and Barthes: beyond transgression "The Soledades" - gender and genre "The Polifemo" - narrative and catachresis figures of sexuality. Part 3 Galdos, Valera, Lacan: psychologism and psychoanalysis "La de Bringas" - the factor of truth "Juanita la Larga" - the insistence of meaning a letter of love. Part 4 Lorca and Foucault: against humanism "Bernarda Alba" - power and knowledge "El publico" - power and pleasure a sense of self. Part 5 Neruda, Vallejo, Marx: Marxian sexuality nature in the "Odas Elementales" man in the "Poemas Humanos" a politics of the body. Part 6 Fuentes, Puig, Lyotard postmodern conditions "Artemio Cruz" and the decline of metanarrative "La Mujer Arana" and the return of the body the end of history?

Abstract: The title Translating Investments, a manifold pun, refers to metaphor and clothing, authority and interest, and trading and finance. Translation, Latin translatio, is historically a name for metaphor, and investment, etymologically a reference to clothing, participates both in the complex symbolism of early modern dress and in the cloth trade of the period. In this original and wide-ranging book, Judith Anderson studies the functioning of metaphor as a constructive force within language, religious doctrine and politics, literature, rhetoric, and economics during the reigns of the Tudors and early Stuarts. Invoking a provocative metaphorical concept from Andy Clark's version of cognitive science, she construes metaphor itself as a form of scaffolding fundamental to human culture. A more traditional and controversial conception of such scaffolding is known as sublation-Hegel's Aufhebung, or raising,as the philosophers Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricoeur have understood this term. Metaphor is the agent of raising, or sublation, and sublation is inseparable from the productive life of metaphor, as distinct in its death in code or clich. At the same time, metaphor embodies the sense both of partial loss and of continuity, or preservation, also conveyed by the term Aufhebung. Anderson's study is simultaneously critical and historical. History and the theory are shown to be mutually enlightening, as are a wide variety of early modern texts and their specific cultural contexts. From beginning to end, this study touches the present, engaging questions about language, rhetoric, and reading within post-structuralism and neo-cognitivism. It highlights connections between intellectual problems active in our own culture and those evident in the earlier texts, controversies, and crises Anderson analyzes. In this way, the study is bifocal, like metaphor itself. While Anderson's overarching concern is with metaphor as a creative exchange, a source of code-breaking conceptual power, each of her chapters focuses on a different but related issue and cultural sector. Foci include the basic conditions of linguistic meaning in the early modern period, instantiated by Shakespeare's plays and related to modern theories of metaphor; the role of metaphor in the words of eucharistic institution under Archbishop Cranmer; the play of metaphor and metonymy in the writings of Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin and in John Donne's Devotions; the manipulation of these two tropes in the politics of the controversy over ecclesiastical vestments and in its treatment by John Foxe; the abuse of figuration in the house of Edmund Spenser's Busirane, where catachresis, an extreme form of metaphor, is the trope du jour; the conception of metaphor in the Roman rhetorics and their legacy in the sixteenth century; and the concept of exchange in the economic writing of Gerrard de Malynes, merchant and metaphorist in the reigns of Elizabeth and James. What emerges at the end of this book is a heightened critical sense of the dynamic of metaphor in cultural history.