“THE HEAVE OF THE SWELL” – METAPHORS OF THE SEA IN SHORT STORIES FROM ATLANTIC CANADA (1900–1930)

Judit NAGY

doi:10.24193/subbphilo.2021.2.07

Authors

Judit NAGY Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. Email: nagy.judit@kre.hu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.2.07

Keywords:

Atlantic Canada between 1900-1930, socio-cultural background, short story, sea-related short fiction, cognitive metaphor theory, metaphors of sea

Abstract

“The Heave of the Swell” – Metaphors of the Sea in Short Stories from Atlantic Canada (1900-1930). The paper examines the use of sea metaphors in Atlantic Canadian short stories written between 1900 and 1930. Lakoff and Kövecses’s cognitive concept of the metaphor will provide the theoretical framework for the identification and classification of sea metaphors surfacing in the texts to be analysed. Using the socio-cultural background information provided in the first part of the paper, the more substantial second part will constitute the actual analysis, which will concentrate on the sea metaphor use of the works of prominent Atlantic Canadian short story writers from the golden age of the sea story.

REZUMAT. “The Heave of the Swell” – Metaforele mării în nuvele din Canada Atlantică (1900-1930). Lucrarea se ocupă de metaforele maritime în nuvelele despre Canada atlantică, scrise între 1900-1930. Conceptul cognitiv al metaforei dezvoltat de Lakoff și Kövecses va oferi cadrul teoretic pentru a identifica și clasifica metaforele maritime din textele analizate. Folosind informația socio-culturală din prima parte a lucrării, partea a doua, mult mai substanțială, constituie analiza propriu-zisă care se va concentra pe folosirea metaforei maritime de către marii nuveliști ai Canadei atlantice în epoca de aur a nuvelei.

Cuvinte-cheie: Canada atlantică între 1900-1930, contextul socio-cultural, nuvela, proza scurtă maritimă, teoria cognitivă a metaforei, metafore maritime

Author Biography

Judit NAGY, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. Email: nagy.judit@kre.hu

Judit NAGY is associate professor at the Institute of English Studies, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, where she teaches courses in North American Studies and applied linguistics. She has a Ph.D. in modern American literature from Eötvös Loránd University (2009). Her research focuses on East Asian Canadians, cultural metaphors, and applied linguistics. In 2012, the Central European Association for Canadian Studies awarded her with the CEACS Certificate of Merit for her contribution to Canadian Studies. Email: nagy.judit@kre.hu

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