The space of metaphor in the space of the created locus (based on Hrant Matevosyan’s prose)
- DOI
- 10.5922/2225-5346-2025-4-9
- Pages
- 169—180
Abstract
The article provides a comparative description of different types of metaphors based on an analysis of the prose of Hrant Matevosyan (1935—2002), a classic of Armenian literature. To analyze the specific type of societal relations reproduced by Matevosyan in his Tsmakut Cycle, the article uses the model of ‘mix of mores (Sittlichkeit), which refers to the spontaneous movement of morals considered from an ontological point of view. In the hopeless struggle to preserve this syncretic environment of morals, subjected to the destructive attack of mobilization, Matevosyan-the-person suffered defeat as a traditionalist. But Matevosyan-the-writer, who developed non-traditional writing methods to describe the metamorphoses of the collapsing ‘mix of mores’, achieved victory as a modernist.
Matevosyan's creative toolkit includes various types of metaphors. The comparative analysis made it possible to identify them in the broad space between epiphany and enowning. From the general idea of epiphany, the study moves on to lyrical metaphor, and from it to existential or phenomenological metaphor, and then to epistemological metaphor. The analysis concludes with a shift toward ontological enowning, engaging the writer within the realm of metaphor.