When Metaphor Becomes Flesh: Reconceptualizing Synaesthetic Metaphors in Becoming Animal
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska sectio FF – Philologiae December 29, 2025 Agata Walek
This paper explores David Abram’s non-fiction work Becoming Animal, highlighting, how his extensive use of metaphorical language reveals and enacts the embodied character of human experience. The physical dimension of metaphor invites the reader to sense the protagonist’s carnality as resonating within their own body, and through this heightened bodily awareness, to experience a reciprocal...