Metonymy, Schematism, and the Space of Literature

W v HAT IS THE RELATION between the language of literary analysis and the language of the text that the subject of analysis? At the most general level we face here the problem evoked by Jacques Derrida La Mythologie blanche: how to account for a structure of metaphor within a philosophical tradition that itself constituted by (in the double sense of its origins in and is immanently organized terms of) that same structure? His succinct formulation is, la philosophie se prive de ce qu'elle se donne. Ses instruments appartenant a son champ, elle est impuissante a dominer sa tropologie et sa metaphorique generales [philosophy deprives itself of what it gives. Since its instruments belong to its field of study, it powerless to exercise control over its general tropology and metaphorics].1 But if philosophy (and, by extension, literary criticism) condemned to renounce those instruments that it has itself

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