The Scandal of Rhetoric. On Otherness of Metaphor in Gothic and Monstrosity

Research Paper from the year 2013 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 75, University of Salford, course: Gothic and Monstrosity, language: English, comment: Scott Brewster (Author of The Lyric) commented that he "applaud[s] the ambition of this essay which is genuinely original in its aim and application.Your emphasis on musical notation and the concept of the drone is interesting indeed. But it would be clearer if you used the standard English Terms for various types of notes (breve, semi-breve,minim, crochet, quaver,semi-quaver)." He also mentioned that " your [my] decision to write this essay in such a dense register of academic prose enables you [me] to demonstrate the very scandal of rhetoric of which you [I] write." , abstract: This research paper demonstrates another semantic presentation of Metaphor in Gothic texts .i.e. The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (1886), by way of setting in opposition generic understandings of rhetoric in due pace. On the face of it, narration becomes a conditional cognizance of intra-textuality, independent from any authorial promptitude; but which multiply the "subjects" and "objects" into play. In this effect and by conducting a recurrent identification of Metaphoricity in the referential function of metric-levels in music, against the sub-conscious gradations of characterization,a novelty of Dramatic standpoints become imminent according to which we come across new dramatis personae, new shades of empiricism and definitely an author who is scarcely in reach of his text.