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The book sets out identity of metaphor in the literary discourse from a comparative perspective and links it with the ontological metaphor of identity. The author points out that ipseity is a trace of the postmodern bivalent condition that uses the vivid metaphor mechanism to describe its ontological lability as strength.

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The book sets out identity of metaphor in the literary discourse from a comparative perspective and links it with the ontological metaphor of identity. The author analyses both American and Romanian texts such as Lucian Blaga´s lyrosophical hermeneutics, Ileana Malancioiu, Mariana Marin and Sylvia Plath´s lyrical tirades, and Max Blecher´s poetic novels. She points out that ipseity is a trace of the postmodern bivalent condition that uses the vivid metaphor mechanism to describe its ontological lability as strength.

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The Identity of Metaphor - Philosophical Discourse - The autonomy of metaphor - Cognition and method in Lucian Blaga´s philosophical discourse - The Metaphor of Identity - Poetic Discourse - Metamorphoses in confessional poetry - Textual identities - personal identity in the Romanian women´s poetry of the 70´s and 80´s - Romanian-American shifting - Sylvia Plath - Mariana Marin - Ileana Malancioiu - Hybrid Narrative Discourse - Max Blecher - narrative ipseity - au dedans/au dehors perspectives.

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Daniela Moldoveanu teaches English and Intercultural Communication courses at the Military Technical Academy of Bucharest, Romania. She studied philology at ®Lucian Blaga¯ University of Sibiu. Her research interests lie in the fields of comparative literature, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, feminine and identity studies, poetics, stylistics, philosophy and aesthetics.

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