ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CATACHRESIS
From Latin, from Greek katakhrēsis a misusing, from katakhrēsthai, from khrēsthai to use.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATACHRESIS»
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catachresis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice
.he first thing that strikes one in the history of the terms "metaphor" and "
catachresis" is the apparently unnecessary confusion of the two, since the
difference between them was clearly defined as early as Quintilian's discussion
of catachresis in ...
John B. Bender, David E. Wellbery, 1990
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Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger
But the trouble is that the relation between the use and the abuse of trope,
between the tropological system and catachresis, is not an opposition: rather
than a nontrope (or a "nonmetaphor, " "nonmetonymy," or "nonsynecdoche"),
catachresis ...
3
Anthropo-logiques 6 (1995). Quel «discours de la méthode» ...
Given that all vocabulary used to describe God is borrowed (via catachresis) from
another isotope (not proper to the divine), all such words are ultimately
inadequate. Bourguet points ouL however, that since there are strictly speaking
no words ...
4
The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic
This representational mode and the trope that describes it are marked from the
first by the very violence and monstrosity that they serve to generate. Quintilian,
for whom such marking is a necessary part of figuration, uses the term "
catachresis" ...
5
Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of ...
Catachresis and Mctaphor: "Be Bold, Be Bold, Be Not Too Bold" in the Latin
Rhetorical Tradition and Its Renaissance Adaptors Twice in recent chapters, I
have invoked Richard Lanham's definition of catachresis as a wrenching of
metaphor or ...
6
Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium
In a system characterized by processual mimesis, ictus mimes the moment of
death or semantic infinity within the "double gesture" (to use Derrida s term from "
The Double Session") of catachresis. Like epiphany, catachresis serves to clear
an ...
Morris Beja, Shari Benstock, 1989
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Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas
Catachresis is the only possible way of sketching this scene. Catachresis also
intervenes in Derrida's analysis in response to his question on the metaphors of
metaphor: '[C]an these defining tropes that are prior to all philosophical rhetoric
and ...
8
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
of a bed. Augustine gives the example of piscina: the word denotes a swimming
pool or tank, despite the complete absence of fish (piscis; De doctrina christiana
.). According to this most straightforward analysis, catachresis functions like
...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
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Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor
So viewed, metaphor is a species of catachresis, which I shall define as the use
of a word in some new sense in order to remedy a gap in the vocabulary.
Catachresis is the putting of new senses into old words.8 But if a catachresis
serves a ...
10
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
of a bed. Augustine gives the example of piscina: the word denotes a swimming
pool or tank, despite the complete absence of fish (piscis; De doctrina christiana
.). According to this most straightforward analysis, catachresis functions like
...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CATACHRESIS»
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Beachcomber: 98 years old and STILL as authentic as brass
... over the name of the current owner or how it was acquired. The Serious Catachresis Squad are said to be watching the sale intently. «Express.co.uk, Jun 15»
Game Review: Epanalepsis
... point and click games from the designer/developer Cameron Kunzelman, whose previous releases include the horror game Catachresis. «Nouse, May 15»
Epanalepsis arriving soon from Mastertronic, watch the trailer here
Some of his previous works include the horror game, Catachresis, and Oh No, featuring the disembodied head of Michel Foucault, and Slavoj ... «Flickering Myth, May 15»
New Texts Out Now: Joseph A. Massad, Islam in Liberalism
Rather, it often seems that all of them are in play interchangeably in the same text, as well as across texts, thus rendering “Islam” a catachresis ... «Jadaliyya, Mar 15»
Pedants of the world, we salute you
It is the work of the satirist to mock human follies, just as grammarians laugh at catachresis. Grammarians are martyred under the name of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
Guardian masterclass: the essentials of grammar with David Marsh
How the hell does one “speak daggers” he asks? And “Curiouser and curiouser”. This is catachresis. Facebook Twitter Google plus. Share. «The Guardian, Sep 14»
Geoffrey Hill
Could language utter truth without catachresis, deviation, superfluity or decoration? Swift shows us the two extremes adumbrated by language ... «The Fortnightly Review, Aug 14»
From Hundreds To Millions - 'Epanelepsis', 'The Deer God' And …
Kunzelman has used Kickstarter twice before, asking for small amounts: the spiritual successor to Epanalepsis, Catachresis, asked for a measly ... «Forbes, Aug 14»
Glow-in-the-Dark Jigsaw Pieces
... they can be synthesized, their relation or nonrelation is not simply that of parataxis; rather they become a kind of implicit syntactic catachresis, ... «Hyperallergic, Aug 14»
Why tenure?
It requires continual lateral procrastinations, a critical-methodological catachresis that (self-)destructs revisions of canonicity by means of ... «Duke Chronicle, Feb 14»
