synecdoche

Eleven years ago when the film was released, I was unaware "synecdoche" was a word, let alone what it means.

This review includes consideration of the problems of translation: kinaya is not quite the same thing as "metonymy" or "periphrasis" and Hussein is clear that he is, in effect, rewriting English critical vocabulary for his purposes: "we will use the term 'synecdoche' as synonymous for the 'loose trope;' although synecdoche basically covers only one type--the most familiar type--of the loose trope: viz.

This mapping of a synecdoche/metonymy distinction onto the "close"/"distant" one is a preliminary response to Alan Liu's call "to discover technically and theoretically how to negotiate between distant and close reading" (2) and to Ted Underwood's important pronouncement "that it is now possible to leave the reading wars behind." (3) A fuller theorization of synecdoche, metonymy, and scale is outside the scope of this essay, but I conclude with a brief discussion of the synecdoche/metonymy distinction and its purchase on how concerns of scientism have inflected skepticisms of both "close reading" during the 1940s and 50s and "distant reading" in the twenty-first century.

The Arc is often reduced to a mere synecdoche for Paris, but in Tassin's mind, it takes on historical specificity.

She uses synecdoche, direct address, and figurative appositives to create clusters of association on multiple levels of human experience.

Synecdoche, New York's writer and director, Charlie Kaufman, cares as deeply about names as his protagonist.

The ruling could be seen as an example of synecdoche, in which a part of something is taken to stand for its whole, or vice versa.

Jonze was supposed to direct "Synecdoche, New York," as well, but "Where the Wild Things" came along, so Kaufman finally got his chance.

He focuses on the structural components of their accounts and uses the poetic concepts of metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, and irony as means to characterize the dominant modes of historical thinking during the period, as well as romance, comedy, tragedy, and satire as the types of stories used by historians to provide a plot structure.

The window is synecdoche, is Eagle itself--a lens, a monocular, framing the wild, holding the vision that draws people up the long trail to the edge of things to have a look and see." (I was one of those who followed that trail to Alaska and spent four of the best years of my life there.

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK BBC2, 12.40am A neurotic playwright suffering a series of worrying physical ailments takes on a grand project - building a replica of New York in a warehouse for a play based on his own life.

The very confusingly named First Blood Part II SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (BBC Two, 12.40am) CADEN Cotard, a neurotic theatre director who's suffering from a variety of ailments and a failing marriage, wins a prestigious grant and uses it to finance a wildly ambitious project - a play based on his own life.

The very confusingly |named First Blood Part II Synecdoche, New York (BBC Two, 12.40am 12.40am T ) CaDeN Cotard, a neurotic theatre director who's suffering from a variety of ailments and a failing marriage, wins a prestigious grant and uses it to finance a wildly ambitious project - a play based on his own life.

This difference is more crystallized in the two languages' realization of the synecdoche.

Importantly, Cross uses the concept of synecdoche to support this contention, arguing that the mention of baptism in passages such as 1 Peter 3:21 (baptism ...