No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...

In a paper read at the International SBL meetings in Vienna, 2007, I discussed the relationship between the literary and literal image. Taking metaphor as the most prominent trope of biblical imagery, ...

Cristopher Hollingsworth has brought new meaning to “buzz” about books. His Poetics of the Hive: The Insect Metaphor in Literature (University of Iowa Press) mines literary versions of a primal act: ...

Professors from universities from Iran and Germany will discuss metaphor and imagination as central discussions to literature and philosophy. Aristotle believes metaphor as the greatest artistic means ...

The Centre for Canadian Culture at the University of Udine is proud to invite you to the international conference The Canadian Cultural Mosaic as Metaphor: Representations and Transformations of ...