Artistic techniques for depicting characters in the story Early Autumn： From cognitive perspective of metaphor  

作　　者：LI Xiao-wen 

机构地区：[1]Department of Foreign Languages, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2010年第3期9-11,17,共4页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：This paper focuses on the role of metaphor in the depicting of the characters for revealing the theme of the story by exploring the artistic technique employed by the author Langston Hughes in his short story Early Autumn. Time, weather, and even people rushing to and from in between are mapped as metaphors to the target characters to help readers to frame the discourse so as to highlight the behaviors of the characters and the story＇s theme. The manipulation of metaphor not only serves well the author＇s purpose of touching the everlasting issues of human concerns, but also demonstrates adequately the merits and common characteristics of high-qualified literary works： leaving audience/readers indefinite imaginary space to interpret or construe around the theme.

关 键 词：artistic technique cognitive perspective of metaphor Early Autumn 

分 类 号：I247.8[文学—中国文学] H315[语言文字—英语]