Hart, J. (Jonathan)
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- Metaphor: Poetry, Philosophy, Rhetoric(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2022) Hart, J. (Jonathan)This article works backwards by contextualizing the metaphorical explosion of metaphor, especially in the last century or so, and works back to Plato and Aristotle, who help us to see the outlines of metaphor in relation to poetics, rhetoric, philosophy and politics, as well as the critical and theoretical issues arising subsequently down to the present age, including the views of Zoltán Kövecses, Northrop Frye, Paul Ricoeur, Hegel, Shakespeare, Thomas Aquinas and others. The nub of the matter is whether metaphor helps us get at the core of philosophy, that is truth, justice and beauty, the good life, or whether it deflects and deludes or both. My argument is that they do both for Plato and even for Aristotle, who is less severe on poetry and on poetic mimesis than is Plato. This friction between actual and fictional worlds might be resolved or at least meet in the possible.
- Mythology, Value-Judgements and Ideology in Northrop Frye's Anatomy and Beyond(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2009) Hart, J. (Jonathan)Partiendo de Frye este trabajo pretende diferenciar entre mitología e ideología. En la Anatomía, se defiende que el estudio de la literatura debe ser autónomo respecto de sistemas filosóficos y de prejuicios y juicios de valor; se busca una perspectiva específicamente literaria que permita incluir todos los métodos. En obras posteriores, las reflexiones de Frye sobre el mito, la metáfora y la Biblia también esclarecen cuestiones sobre ideología. La literatura puede considerarse como vida del mito y la metáfora; trasciende la ideología y constituye una crítica de la crítica y de la vida. This essay tries to differentiate between mythology and ideology on the basis of Frye’s work. In the Anatomy, there is a defence of the autonomy of literary criticism against philosophical systems as well as against prejudice and value-judgements, and a search after a perspective where all methods can find their place. In later works, the reflections on myth, metaphor and the Bible shed also light on ideology. Literature may be seen as the life of myth and methafor, thus transcending ideology and being a critique of critique as well as of life.