metonymic

• “Your search for "metonymic" meanings instead of taking things first at face value is particularly distressing to me.”

  Never judge a book by its nom de plume

• “In Morte D'Urban, we can see the extended use Powers makes of the priesthood as a kind of metonymic device to explore the themes of community, America, the spiritual/moral life.”

  The Priestly Comedy of J. F. Powers

• “From this we can identify that time is constructed in two ways -- one as metonymic (the correlation of events) and one as metaphoric (from an understanding of motion and resources).”

  The Huffington Post: Jason Derr: Seeing The Future In 3-D: Incarnation And The Sputnik Moment

• “Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person.”

  Archive 2008-08-01

• “In its metonymic relation to the season, however, Shelley's wind, with all its surface effects, is also the recessional index of a further unseen presence.”

  Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian

• “Via Kittler once more, the Faustian (Goethean) bargain — trading one's mute soul for the voice of poetry — comes true yet again in an oralized alphabetic writing resembling nothing so much as the metonymic skids of the unconscious.”

  Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian

• “On the other hand, the combination of all these parallel, metonymic stories that accumulate and flesh out one another, creates a subtext whose increasing scope rivals the actual text, illuminating the work with a unique poetics.”

  Judith Hendel.

• “‘Code is Law’ is also a metonymic inference referencing a paradigm.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Lessig’s “Code” at 10:

• “Put aside the metonymic swipe at the faculty lounge.”

  Balkinization

• “Each of the characters is metonymic of the experiences of the working classes under Thatcher's Tory government.”

  Take Two

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