I am quite confused about the difference between these two kinds of figures of speech, synecdoche and metonymy. Sometimes, I think synecdoche is just one type of metonymy. Could you please help me out ...

In Norman MacCaig's poem Visiting Hour, the speaker uses synecdoche to describe himself as he visits his wife in hospital: 'the hospital smell combs my nostrils as they go bobbing along.' ...

This is what I want to try to give people.” —Caden Cotard, Synecdoche, New York “It will open to confused audiences and live indefinitely.” —Roger Ebert The money sequence in Being John ...

early on in “Synecdoche, New York.” She says it with a shrug, as she prepares to turn off the lights on her marriage to Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Caden Cotard. By the end of Charlie Kaufman ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The original cut of Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut "Synecdoche, New York" was just more than four hours long, and after a half-sized version was unveiled at ...

Synecdoche, New York,” screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s wildly ambitious directorial debut, recalls the Jorge Luis Borges story in which the imperial cartographers make a map of the empire so ...

Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s 2008 directorial debut Synecdoche, New York follows a marital conflict between two artists living in ...