The Void and the Metaphors: A New Reading of William Golding's Fiction - Softcover

Yasunori Sugimura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3039115286 ISBN 13: 9783039115280

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2008

Synopsis

This book aims to revise the traditional interpretation of William Golding’s fiction. The author investigates Golding’s complicated metaphors which fluctuate so widely as to make consistent readings almost impossible. The study reveals that these fluctuating metaphors are created around a void, which is depicted not only as a gap but also as an impenetrable dark spot, or a counter-gaze. The characters in Golding’s fiction endeavour to symbolise the void, but it ultimately resists symbolisation.
Mainly from the perspective of semiotics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, the book looks at the way in which the elements excluded from the symbolic system react against it and leave this void. The author then focuses on the void’s significance in the creation of unique metaphors.

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About the Author

The Author: Yasunori Sugimura is Professor at the Centre for Language Studies, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan, where he teaches English literature and literary theory. He has published articles on Iris Murdoch, Thomas Hardy, and William Golding in major journals and has been a visiting scholar at Darwin College, University of Cambridge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3039115286
• ISBN 13: 9783039115280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 249