➢ Basically, connotative metaphor means that in analyzing literature or when you analyze the work of art, you don’t use critical principles only, you might refer to other sciences or other disciplines to help you understand the work of art. • When we study linguistics or pragmatics, the idea is you refer to linguistics, to linguistic rules, to pragmatic rules and other rules to help you better understand the work of art. • In connotative metaphor, you have to have some kind of other understandings of the work. When you start the work, it show you how accounting, for example, helps us understand or shed more light on the work of art, King Lear. King Lear by William Shakespeare King Lear basically is about him (the king) asking his three daughters how much they love him and according to their answers, he is going to bestow يمنحon them the fortune of his kingdom and his reason for dividing the kingdom is that he wants to give responsibility or more responsibilities to his young daughters. So, he would say, “Just tell me how much you love me and I would give you as much”. So much and how much, and things like that is a number and numbers are accounted for by the accounting principles. So, those writers who analyze the work would say “How accounting helps us all through the play?”, “How it helps us understand the work of art as it is”. • We will have several aspects of this connotative metaphor theory with basic reference to King Lear and other works. • Some kind of criticism will tell you that you don’t have to know more about the writer, his background, his biography to be able to understand the work. So, what you need to know is to look at the text first and see what does it mean. ➢ Several writers or critics would say, “what does the poem say?” and the answer is the poem says what is says. يعني ايه الكالم ده؟ You look at the structure of work of art, the given text and you analyze it, you give a paraphrase, you know first what it means and then you look for the dominant metaphor and this can give you the structure of the work. Knowing the structure of the work of art, you can understand the work. كل حاجة بندرسها داخلة معانا في المنهج The Tempest by William Shakespeare Prospero is a good king who is governing his country, but he was not really interested in governing the country, he is a philosopher, reader, thinker. So, he left everything to his brother, left the governing of the country to his brother. His brother is a wicked one like the wicked brother in As you like it he took advantage of his brother who was not free to handle the affairs of the country and he put him on a ship so the ship may drown (sink). The ship was saved through the work of good people who were associates of Prospero. He managed to live in an island and then through Prospero’s books, he could get magic. With magic, he could control other beings. On the ship was the son of his brother, Ferdinand, a good boy. Living on the island by himself, he has his own daughter with him. Somehow Prospero wanted this young man to fall in love with his daughter so that they could create a family, and he managed to do that. He gave this boy a hard time so that he could see how much his daughter would love him and sympathize with him. الخاصة بالمسرحيةPlot الزم تقرأوا الـ: محسن.د ...وبتنتهي المحاضرة االولي هنا
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