Narrative and Metaphorical Discourse in Biographical Essays
Keywords:
Hungarian literature, biographical essay, metaphor, Mikszáth KálmánAbstract
This paper analyses the relationship of the narrative and rhetorical formation of a body of biographical essays written by a single author, Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1910). The literariness of some authors’ writing is described through various tropes and some examples are analyzed from the viewpoint of implied ideology.References
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