“THE HEAVE OF THE SWELL” – METAPHORS OF THE SEA IN SHORT STORIES FROM ATLANTIC CANADA (1900–1930)
“THE HEAVE OF THE SWELL” – METAPHORS OF THE SEA IN SHORT STORIES FROM ATLANTIC CANADA (1900–1930)

Summary/Abstract: “The Heave of the Swell” – Metaphors of the Sea in Short Stories from Atlantic Canada (1900-1930). The paper examines the use of sea metaphors in Atlantic Canadian short stories written between 1900 and 1930. Lakoff and Kövecses’s cognitive concept of the metaphor will provide the theoretical framework for the identification and classification of sea metaphors surfacing in the texts to be analysed. Using the socio-cultural background information provided in the first part of the paper, the more substantial second part will constitute the actual analysis, which will concentrate on the sea metaphor use of the works of prominent Atlantic Canadian short story writers from the golden age of the sea story.

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