Spatial Forms as Metaphors of Characters: Study Based on the Prose of D.H. Lawrence
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https://doi.org/10.34767/HG.2014.04.03Słowa kluczowe:
spatial forms, metaphor, Lawrence, equivalenceAbstrakt
The paper presents the results of the study conducted on two novels authored by David Herbert Lawrence, to be specific, The Rainbow and Women in Love. The paper shows the correlation between characters and literary spatial forms, which prove to be equivalent, on either synonymic or antonymic terms. As a result of the connections there emerge metaphorical meanings, which are transferred from the spaces onto the characters. The main set of meanings drawn from spatial forms and further defining the characters in the novels could be generally categorised as revolving around the concept freedom.
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