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Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East /

Metaphor has intrigued philosophers, rhetoricians, and poets since Antiquity. The phenomenon of metaphor has been mostly interpreted as a figure of speech, and only in last decades of the 20th Century the so-called cognitive turn defined metaphor as a product first of the thought and then of the lan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pallavidini, Marta, Portuese, Ludovico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.
Colección:Philippika ; 141.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Researching metaphor in the ancient near east : an introduction / Ludovico Portuese and Marta Pallavidini
  • The lion, the shepherd, and the master of animals : metaphorical interactions and governance representations in Mesopotamian and Levantine sources / Stéphanie Anthonioz
  • To serve woman : Jezebel, Anat, and the metaphor of women as food / Esther Brownsmith
  • Visualizing 'death' (Môtu) in the Ugaritic texts / Joseph Lam
  • Aššur is King! : The metaphorical implications of embodiment, personification, and transference in ancient Assyria / Davide Nadali
  • How did they think? : towards use of metaphor theories to research the Hittite conceptual world
  • Cows of battle, urinating lions, and frightened falcons : on metaphor in Sumerian literary compositions / Judith Pfitzner
  • Live and let live images : metaphor and interpictoriality in neo-Assyrian art / Ludovico Portuese
  • The significance of the embrace metaphor in the inscription KARKAMIŠ A 21 / Claudia Posani
  • Metaphors and conceptual metaphors in the Mesopotamian medical texts / Silvia Salin
  • Metaphor for the construction of spontaneous meaning : examples gathered from the rural landscape in Sumerian literature / Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira
  • "Squeezing" like oil from a sesame seed : on the conceptual background of metaphoric expressions in Akkadian diplomatic texts originating from Ḫatti / Lisa Wilhelmi.