A Study of Metaphors within Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God in the light of Post-structuralist Feminist Criticism
سال انتشار: 1392
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: انگلیسی
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 28 آذر 1392
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The purpose of the present research is the scrutiny of the most prominent metaphors in Zora Neale Hurston’s magnum opus Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston is quite reputable in the fields of Afro-American literature, the Harlem Renaissance cultural movement and women’s studies and her chosen masterpiece possesses several notable qualities including its numerous metaphors. In addition to being significant figures of speech and performing signal roles within poetry, the existence of metaphors leads to proliferation of meanings. Thus, they are regarded as salient tools for post-structuralist writers and critics. On the other hand, Their Eyes is capable to bear feminist qualities, as well. As a consequence of the aforementioned facts, the researcher aims at investigating a selected number of the most notable metaphor that are located at the center of feminist and post-structuralist critics in the light of the most notable Hurston scholars’s discussions and post-structuralist critics’ theories. Considering the mentioned metaphors and their related criticisms, the researcher reaches to this conclusion that the selected text is abundant with quite seminal metaphors that add to its plurality, post-structuralist quality ane layers of meaning
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Iran Zamani Siboni
Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Brach, Tehran, Iran