A01=Claudia D. Bergmann
Author_Claudia D. Bergmann
Category=QRJ
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Metapher
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- ISBN 9783110200423
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2008
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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Crises and catastrophes of all kinds have always confronted humans with great challenges. The present study examines the question of how literary texts process and deal with these challenges through the imaginary world of metaphors. It concentrates on the metaphor of childbirth, which compares people racked with crisis to women in labour (and sometimes vice versa). The texts examined are taken from the Ancient Orient and the Old Testament, together with a text exemplar from the Qumran corpus, which takes up the metaphor of childbirth and develops it further.
Claudia D. Bergmann, Lutherstadt Eisleben.
