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Catachresis
in stylistics, a combination of lexically incompatible words that form a unique and meaningful whole (compare with oxymoron, a combination of words with contrasting and opposite meanings, such as in “a living corpse.”) There are two types of catachresis: (1) that which comes into being naturally, through the development of the nominative means of a language, and which may be perceived at first as incorrect word usage (“white brownstone,” “to sail a steamship”); and (2) that which is created deliberately, for an intended effect (“black gold,” “when the crab whistles”). Catachresis can be either a verbal blunder (“let not the arms of the sharks of imperialism extend to us”), where the tropes are joined mechanically, or an illustration of great artistic skill: But through the listless night the serpents of remorse More shrewdly burn within me … A. S. Pushkin Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | 28) Within the Enlightenment-era narratives that first broadcasted it, this catachrestic but ingenious conceit linked somatic response (orality and aurality) with the realities of racial exclusion, nautical travel, and largely capitalistic transculturation. William Pietz addresses just this catachrestic indecorum in his history of the "discursively promiscuous" fetish. Freinkel's attempt to displace Fineman's "chiasmus" with Lutheran "catachresis" feels weakly supercessionist, oddly out of tune with her critique of typology (for example, "Will, like Luther's catachrestic flesh, is a supplement, but it departs significantly from the [post-] structuralist logic of supplement that Fineman employs" [233]). |
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