metonomy

is, along with metaphor, not imaginary. On the contrary, they prevent the series from confusing or duplicating their terms in imaginary terms.

This is why structuralism brings so much attention to bear on metaphor and metonymy. These are not in any way figures of the imagination, but are, above all, structural factors. They are even the two structural factors, in the sense that they express the two degrees of freedom of displacement, from one series to another and within the same series. Far from being imaginary, they prevent the series that they animate from confusing or duplicating their terms in imaginary fashion. (deleuze 'desert islands' 184)

G ard Genette had declared metonymy to be at the heart of metaphor. For Genette, metaphors are motivated by semantic or even referential relations between the particular tenor and the vehicle this tenor attracts. In Genette's case a specific church tower is the tenor, whereas the cornfields surrounding the tower, the vehicle, call into being the metaphor of ears of corn to describe the surface structure of the tower's roof'

is powerful. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

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metonomy