10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYNECDOCHISM»
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synecdochism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
synecdochism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study
One is a phenomenon of synecdochism, that is, the confusion of a part with the
whole. It occurs commonly when a characteristic happens to be present in most
elements of a set (or even all of them, but without being part of its essence); ...
In view of this fact of colloquial English usage, the philosophical usage whereby
words literally refer to things might have to be attributed to what the Shorter
Oxford Dictionary calls synecdochism. Synecdochism is an anthropologist's term
for a ...
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Toward Robert Frost: The Reader and the Poet
34) Synecdochism, 106 Synecdochist, RF as, 52, 53, 55 Syntax, analysis of: in "
The Most of It," 85-87; in "Into My Own," 99-101; in "The Silken Tent," 187-90
Telling: importance of, to RF, 7; importance of, to identity, 7 Tense and mode: in "
The ...
Frost's Synecdochism George F. Bagby, Jr. How anyone can fail to see Where
perfectly in form and tint The metaphor, the symbol lies! Why will I not analogize?
(I do too much in some men's eyes.) (p. 327)' 1 THE reader of Frost can hardly ...
Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd, 1991
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Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the ...
When, in the stage of amulet wearing and synecdochism, the warring tribesman
slew an enemy, he sometimes mutilated the remains and even ate of the heart,
not only in savage triumph, but mainly in order that he might gain the courage
and ...
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology, 1897
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Primitive Trephining in Peru
When, in the stage of amulet wearing and synecdochism, the warring tribesman
slew an enemy, he sometimes mutilated the remains and even ate of the heart,
not only in savage triumph, but mainly in order that he might gain the courage
and ...
Manuel Antonio Mun̄iz, W J McGee, 1897
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The Robert Frost Review
Bagby, George F. "Frost's Synecdochism." On Frost. Ed. Edwin H. Cady and
Louis J. Budd. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1991. Cramer, Jeffrey S. Robert
Frost among His Poems. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland and
Co., ...
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Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
161 To argue that the East–West divide is endemic in “Western” civilization is to
collapse historical evolution into the methodological anarchy of ahistorical
synecdochism.162 Said looks at the post-Enlightenment, imperialist “West” of
Europe ...
Daniel Martin Varisco, 2012
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Sources in Irish Art: A Reader
... paintings to the verbal paralogisms of Joyce's writing, simultaneously day-
consciousness and night-consciousness, 'like Ulysses and Finnegan,or like a
living human head, image of the whole in the part, the old synecdochism of the
Celt'.
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Navigations: Collected Irish Essays, 1976-2006
... paintings to the verbal paralogisms of Joyce's writing, simultaneously day-
consciousness and night-consciousness, 'like Ulysses and Finnegan, or like a
living human head image of the whole in the part, the old synecdochism of the
Celt'.2" ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYNECDOCHISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
synecdochism is used in the context of the following news items.
A Pioneer of Color Photography Gets His Due
In these photos — shot between 1941 and 1947, while working in a Copenhagen bookstore — he practiced a kind of synecdochism, seeing parts of the world as ... «Hyperallergic, Aug 14»
Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice, National Gallery …
... fully fledged and soon to embark on his major pictorial cycles (for which the Gallery's small St George and the Dragon of 1553 is a convenient synecdochism). «Evening Standard, Mar 14»
Emilio Greco, Estorick Collection - exhibition review
A single plaque of a woman in low relief stands as a synecdochism for the cathedral doors in Orvieto; it does him no justice — but then nor do the doors ... «Evening Standard, Sep 13»
