The Scandal of Rhetoric. On 'Otherness' of Metaphor in Gothic and Monstrosity

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 75, University of Salford, course: Gothic and Monstrosity, language: English, abstract: This research paper demonstrates another semantic presentation of Metaphor in Gothic texts .i.e. The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (1886), by way of setting in opposition generic understandings of rhetoric in due pace. On the face of it, narration becomes a conditional cognizance of intra-textuality, independent from any authorial promptitude; but which multiply the 'subjects' and 'objects' into play. In this effect and by conducting a recurrent identification of Metaphoricity in the referential function of metric-levels in music, against the sub-conscious gradations of characterization,a novelty of Dramatic standpoints become imminent according to which we come across new dramatis personae, new shades of empiricism and definitely an author who is scarcely in reach of his text.