"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse……" — Thomas Harrison

"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."

— Thomas Harrison

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13 Quotes by Thomas Harrison

Thomas Harrison has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the…
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.
Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information.
In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an…
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among…
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.
To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.
With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to…

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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can… — George A. Sheehan
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a… — Jeph Jacques
Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past… — Charles Dickens
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with… — Ray Bradbury
Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off. — Howard G. Hendricks
Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Today, the world can appear fragmented and its people disconnected, mosaics allow me to fuse the pieces together to create… — Unknown Author
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for… — Terry Tempest Williams
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet
The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of… — Patrick F. McManus
A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse! — Homer Hickam
I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now. — Alex Ferguson

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