SZIR ha-SZIRIM. Image-Depicting Via Sacrum and Profanum Metaphor on the Example of Song of Songs – a cognitive analysis

Renata Łukiewicz-Kostro

Abstract


Song of Songs, included in the Old Testament Book of Wisdom is a passionate erotic poem, a prototype of love lyrical poetry which expresses perennial, fascinating, sensual sensations and human desires. The text has been the subject of numerous interpretations in various perspectives, among others: natural (pastoral), cult and mystical, allegorical or theological. It also stimulated quite provocative radical interpretations as it is a text one cannot go by indifferently. The aim of this paper is to analyze briefly a selected Sacrum/profanum metaphor via cognitive approach and indicate there is no dualism but rather mutual overlapping of those two spheres.


Keywords


Song of Songs; Sacrum/profanum metaphor; sacrofanum; image-depicting; embodied experience; cognitive approach

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The Song of Songs Polish quotations for the analysis were taken from:

Miłosz Cz., Księgi biblijne, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2003.

The English equivalents of the quotations were taken from: The Jerusalem Bible. Popular Edition, Darton, Longman and Todd, London 1974.

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Recommended for further reading:

Goatley A., The Language of Metaphors, Routledge, London – New York 1997.

Hiraga Masako K., Metaphor and Iconicity. A Cognitive Approach to Analyzing Texts, Pal-grave, MacMillan UK, New York 2005.

Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible, ed. by P. Hecke, Leuven University Press 2005.

Ortony A., Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/kw.2016.20.33
Date of publication: 2017-05-08 13:08:09
Date of submission: 2017-05-01 01:14:35


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