wow. good stuff here.
A Web Essay on the Male Gaze, Fashion Advertising, and the Pose
there's also a piece linked to there about semiotics, which for me was a good introduction to it. i already knew about the signifier/signified distinction, but metonymy continues to throw me.
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Metonymy?
(Doot doo dee doo doo)
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.
you know, i hadn't even gone there.
Metonymy is fun and easy! James Thurber explains it all. Metonymy, he says, either uses the container when it means the thing contained, or else the other way around. When Antony says, "Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your ears," he is not asking the crowd to cut off its ears and hand them over. He is askinig for what the ears contain, the power of hearing. James Thurber says that as a child he spent hours trying to think of an example of Thing Contained for the Container, and finally concluded that, if an angry woman said to her husband, "Get away from me or I'll hit you with the milk," that would be it. He lived in the days of glass milk bottles.
Trusting that this divagation has been helpful, I remain,
Pamela
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