Spatial metaphors
Subtitle: ancient texts and transformations
By: edited by Fabian Horn, Cilliers Breytenbach
Series: Berlin studies of the ancient world -- 39; Berlin studies of the ancient world -- 39.
Publisher: Edition Topoi
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9783981638424
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Metaphor; Classical literature; History and criticism; Theory; Metaphor in literature; Metaphor in the Bible
Other titles: Raum-Metaphern in antiken Texten und deren Rezeption.
Notes: Conference proceedings.

Proceedings of a conference "Raum-Metaphern in antiken Texten und deren Rezeption" held in Berlin, June, 6-7, 2014.

8 English, 4 German contributions.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : space and metaphor / Fabian Horn; title: Metaphors as models of thinking / Wolfgang Raible; title: Spatial metaphors as rhetorical figures : case studies from wisdom texts of the Egyptian New Kingdom / Camilla Di Baise-Dyson; title: Kratēr : the mixing-vessel as metaphorical space in Ancient Greek tradition / Renate Schlesier; title: Metaphor and spcaial conceptualization : observations on orientaional metaphors in Lychophron's Alexandra / Fabian Horn; title: Spatial metaphor in the Pauline epistles / Markus Egg; title: Taufe als räumliche metapher in den briefen des Paulus / Cilliers Breytenbach; title: Irdisches Himmelreich : die, stiftshütte (Ex 25-40*) als theologische metapher / Helmut Utzschneider; title: "For to have fallen is not a grievous thing, but to remain prostrate after falling, and not to get up again." / the persuasive force of spatial metaphors in Chrysostom's exhortation to Theodore / Jan R. Stenger; title: Räume der Erkenntnis : zur raummetaphorik in der augustinischen Erkenntnistheorie / Therese Fuhrer; title: Brandans Buch der Welt : eine komkretisierte metapher / Beatrice Trînca; title: In other words : George Herbert's metaphorical textures / Verena Olejniczak Lobsien.