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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2020.
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Colección: | Philippika ;
141. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.