The Identity of Metaphor The Metaphor of Identity

The book sets out identity of metaphor in the literary discourse from a comparative perspective and links it with the ontological metaphor of identity. The author analyses both American and Romanian texts such as Lucian Blagas lyrosophical hermeneutics, Ileana Mlncioiu, Mariana Marin and Sylvia Plaths lyrical tirades, and Max Blechers poetic novels. She points out that ipseity is a trace of the postmodern bivalent condition that uses the vivid metaphor mechanism to describe its ontological lability as strength.