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Thomas Carlyle<\/a> died on this date in 1881 (born 1795).<\/p>\n

Frye in “New Directions from Old” cites Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus<\/em> in order to make the point that literature does not present “ideas” by way of logic, but a mimesis <\/em>of ideas by way of metaphor:<\/p>\n

Literary criticism finds a good deal of difficulty in dealing with such works as Sartor Resartus<\/em> takes the structure of German Romantic philosophy and extracts from it a central metaphor in which the phenomenal is to the noumenal world as clothing is to the naked body: something which conceals it, and yet, by enabling it to appear in public, paradoxically reveals it as well.<\/p>\n

The “ideas” the poets use, therefore, are not actual propositions, but thought-forms or conceptual myths, usually dealing with images rather than abstractions, and hence normally unified by metaphor, or image phrasing, rather than by logic.\u00a0 (CW 21, 121-13)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas Carlyle died on this date in 1881 (born 1795). 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