The OED glosses five senses for the noun 'changeling' and a number of commentators speculate on which of the many characters who are subject to change might be the dramatists' intended changeling; see, for instance: Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral, 50-2; Bradbrook, Themes and Conventions, 213-24; Pasternak-Slater, '
Hypallage', 429; and John Stachniewski, 'Calvinist Psychology in Middleton's Tragedies', Three Jacobean Tragedies, ed.
The Greek meaning of hypallage is "interchange, exchange"; the most common example is "her beauty's face." In the Cyclops episode of Ulysses, Joyce provides us with hypallage as word play: when Joe Hynes offers the narrator a drink, saying "Could you make a hole in another pint?" the answer is "Could a swim duck?" (405).
"You can scarce," said [my father], "combine two ideas together upon it [love], brother Toby, without an hypallage"--What's that?
Sutton's cleverness appears especially in chapter 4's identification of the placement of the Woman's Building as
hypallage: It demonstrates how one can merge a classical rhetorical analysis with a feminist one.
23 Of the many commentaries on the lines, see especially Ann Pasternak Slater, '
Hypallage, Barley-Break, and The Changeling, RES, n.s.
Rivera is particularly effective in demonstrating how difficult is an attempt to pin definitive musical associations to Burmeister's rhetorical categories by means of his processive understanding of terms like "metalepsis" and "
hypallage," which is not consistent from one treatise to the next.
Regardless of one's inclination to embrace or to discard Freudian psychoanalysis, it is difficult not read the description of Madeline's chamber as a vaginal metaphor, an account of the "Maiden's chamber" (which is a
hypallage) being "silken, hush'd, and chaste" (21.187).
That is the technique of
hypallage. This is from the preface to the volume El hacedor, The Maker: "To left and right, absorbed in their waking dream, rows of readers' momentary profiles in the light of the 'scholarly lamps,' as a Miltonian displacement of adjectives would have it.
It's true that perenne can't modify saeclo, but it's also true that
hypallage, the transfer of an epithet, is a minor liberty of the kind that Dryden, Pope, and every English translator who wrote before the advent of the late modern notion of a literary text translated "literally" took without asking.
La subtile
hypallage qu'aucune traduction ne saurait negliger remplace ici le couteau par la blessure.
Moving from a state of affairs pertaining to one domain, to a state of affairs pertaining to another, by means of an epistemological
hypallage, all fields of knowledge are levelled out:
(11) A "tower of blood" is a
hypallage that implies transparency; the effort of ascending can be viewed.
a) Tout d'abord, il souligne le fait de la contiguite de deux sensations, sur leur coexistence dans le meme contexte mental (17), a commencer par des
hypallages (18).
