Dear Otfried,
Thank you very much for the references. I wish I could read German, or Latin
(I might manage 2 pages of a Latin text a day, but I'm afraid this is not very
good). I'll try to describe what my idea is: I am doing my thesis on metaphor,
and was considering the possibility to include a short historical survey into
it, especially what has to do with the ditinction between the literal and the
metaphorical. Just one day it seemed to me that it did not exist in the same
form as we have it now before ?Descartes, at least, not in classical or medieval
rhetoric. While modern authors mention somehow Aristotle or Isocrates or Quintil
lian, I have not met any mention of medieval authors. The problem here is, pro
bably, that the word "metaphor" in medieval context has for them "exegetic"
rather than "grammatical" sense. If I remember right since Alexandria there was
this talk about metaphor and "levels" of reading. The question is: is medieval
view of metaphor comparable and compatible with the modern understandng (if
one puts the Bible apart0?
I would be happy to hear from you again.
Marina
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