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- Title
LANGUAGE AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN THE WORK OF HERTA MÜLLER<sup>*</sup>.
- Authors
Shopin, Pavlo
- Abstract
ABSTRACT Herta Müller creates sophisticated metaphors to convey her vision of language and its relationship to suffering and subjugation. With reference to both her fiction and non-fiction, this essay explores how she uses the idea of forceful language. It delineates how the trope of force illuminates the power of language. I analyse the metaphorical conceptualisation of forceful language that makes survival possible through resistance to social oppression. Language is understood as a force that provides support and protection to the author and her characters. The metaphorical image of force enables Müller to represent language as a means by which to lighten the burden of oppression, to put up resistance, and to help the victims of persecution cope with their suffering and survive.
- Subjects
MULLER, Herta, 1953-; GERMAN women authors; PSYCHOLOGY &; literature; PHYSICS in literature; IDENTITY (Psychology); FIGURES of speech
- Publication
German Life & Letters, 2018, Vol 71, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
0016-8777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/glal.12183