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=== In Literature === | === In Literature === | ||
==== William Shakespeare's ''The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'' ==== | ==== William Shakespeare's ''The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'' ==== | ||
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..."<ref name=Ref2/> are the opening words of Mark Antony's famous speech during Act | "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..."<ref name=Ref2/> are the opening words of Mark Antony's famous speech during Act three, scene two of the play. The "parts of a whole" connection comes from the ears that are part of the whole human body. Antony does not plea for his countrymen's physical ears; rather, he requires what they represent: their attention and their minds. | ||
==== Charles Dickens's ''Little Dorrit'' ==== | ==== Charles Dickens's ''Little Dorrit'' ==== | ||
In Daniel Novak's article "If Re-Collecting Were Forgetting: Forged Bodies and Forgotten Labor "Little Dorrit," he examines the existence of synecdoche in Charles Dickens's ''Little Dorrit.'' According to Novak, synecdoche functions in literature as "the exaggeration and isolation of a body part so that its dominance of physical size and semiotic voice the essence of the entire character." Novak uses the bases of this definition to claim that Dickens "effaces the boundary between the material world of things and the organic structures of body, by packaging all parts of the body, no matter how ostensibly central as “accessories” – loose members in the world of commodities" (21). The characters in the novel serve as parts of the whole in the society of the text. In the novel, the life of a character is used to reflect or show a relation to a segment of society. <ref name=Ref8/> | In Daniel Novak's article "If Re-Collecting Were Forgetting: Forged Bodies and Forgotten Labor "Little Dorrit," he examines the existence of synecdoche in Charles Dickens's ''Little Dorrit.'' According to Novak, synecdoche functions in literature as "the exaggeration and isolation of a body part so that its dominance of physical size and semiotic voice the essence of the entire character." Novak uses the bases of this definition to claim that Dickens "effaces the boundary between the material world of things and the organic structures of body, by packaging all parts of the body, no matter how ostensibly central as “accessories” – loose members in the world of commodities" (21). The characters in the novel serve as parts of the whole in the society of the text. In the novel, the life of a character is used to reflect or show a relation to a segment of society. <ref name=Ref8/> | ||