Spatial Metaphors. Ancient Texts and Transformations
Exzellenzcluster 264 Topoi
In presenting philological reading of spatial
metaphors in ancient texts and their reception based on
theoretical approaches to metaphor, this is a pioneering
study which also bears testimony to the increasing
interest in the potential and cognitive functions of
metaphor in literary studies. The individual studies of er
a representative synopsis of current theories on spatial
metaphors and encompass applications to literary texts
from a number of genres and languages ranging from
wisdom texts and philosophical treatises to tragedy
and from Ancient Egyptian to Shakespearean English,
thus spanning almost 3000 years of human thought
and language.
Based on this framework of theory and practice, this
volume collects a series of papers originally delivered
at a conference entitled Raum-Metaphern in antiken
Texten und deren Rezeption, organized by research group
C-2 Space and Metaphor in Cognition, Language and
Texts of the Excellence Cluster of Topoi The Formation
and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient
Civilizations in Berlin in June 2014.
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Anmerkungen
Erscheint in der Reihe "Berlin Studies of the Ancient World" herausgegeben von Exzellenzcluster 264 Topoi ; 39