When this happens,
synecdochic referral via a proper name (antonomasia) moves in a universalistic direction, evoking generic or archetypal qualities--or in a particularistic direction, introjecting generic qualities into the possessor of a proper name as a legal entity.
There is the scale of the text and the scale of the interpretation; the relation between the micro (closeness) and the macro ("largest symbolizations possible") is the
synecdochic relation between the object of investigation (the word, the plot, etc.) and the "larger" moral, social, or historical claim.
(13) In A Tale of Two Cities the idiom "shaking in one's shoes" for "being afraid" is literalized when the road mender is said to be shaking "in his wooden shoes" out of fear of Madame Defarge (180), his footgear, ominously contrasting with the elegant shoes made by Doctor Manette in captivity and foreshadowing a combination of dead metaphor and hypallage--when after the outbreak of the Revolutionary terror, the
synecdochic Monseigneur "[takes] to his noble heels" (243).
Verity) I find Wevill's version much more powerful and startling, with its
synecdochic emphasis on one spark rather than a fire started from one spark and the unexpected action of eating rather than destroying.
Reflexivity is clearest in Obama's
synecdochic invocation of his religious biography: "I'm a Christian but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims" (para.
Text and author stand in a
synecdochic relation: since the citizens of Highbury have not yet met Frank Churchill, the letter and its virtues stand in for Frank and his supposed virtues.
Furthermore, she continues, while maps are informed by a univocal, one-directional
synecdochic logic, one that "relies on the assumption that one knows what smaller space is a part of what larger one," modernist writers' more complex handling of "the relationship between representation and experience [...] thwarts the orderly habits of mind" (Booth 99) such a logic invites, since they show its limitations and inadequacy to appreciate multiple, contradictory perspectives.
As an oppositional echo to the sash of the Protestant marching song epitomising an essentially authentic identity warranting violence, the wig is
synecdochic of a media-engineered Irish reality (specifically television).
I analyze the Whitmanian specimen as the material and psychic remains of the dying soldier: a
synecdochic figure that facilitates the symbolic burial of countless inaccessible bodies.
Nonetheless, if we are faithful to the "
synecdochic" workings of literature as such (the tale as framed excerpt or episode stands in for the breadth of history) then such formal narrative "fictions" will exert some influence, however minimal their power of contagion may be, on the vernacular "fictions with which people fill the future".
If you see one chair alone, it's like an orphan, it's
synecdochic, a part that speaks to a larger whole that's absent, from which it has been removed.
synecdochic and metonymic seductions that link images and sequences ...
(11) Tarabotti establishes her Inferno monacale, or "Convent as Hell" as analogous to Dante's Inferno through
synecdochic allusions to and quotations from the Commedia.
On the other hand, photography as an art form also has much to gain from painting, especially Zen-inspired painting, which is characterized by suggestiveness, the
synecdochic implying of the macrocosmic by the microcosmic, the indispensability of empty space, the sense of haecceity (i.e., the singular mystical aura that belongs with each specific moment), and the feel of wu-hsin ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], i.e., no-mind), etc.
