Thursday, January 29, 2009

VI. Reflection Takes on Metalepsis

Metalepsis is a rhetorical device (similar to others that involve substitution of a part for a whole).

Our use of metalepsis derives from current and postmodern sense of it as a transumption, a moving across the borders of reality as Sugimoto did with his photograph.

We are asking students to move across time and conventional genre borders (leaving behind the reflection essay and its 5 paragraph thematosis.

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