This volume consists of articles on imagery in the poetry of various literary canons. The articles present new research based on individual approaches for each particular canon within a wide span from socio-cultural environment to semantic and cognitive properties of specific images.

Autorentext

Kerstin Eksell was Professor of Semitic Philology at the University of Copenhagen and Professor of Arabic at Stockholm University. She is an affiliated researcher at Stockholm University.

Gunilla Lindberg-Wada is Professor emerita of Japanology at Stockholm University.

Inhalt

The other the Hebrew bible The Akkadian scholar Plato A female Chinese poet Japanese figurative speech Arabic figurative speech Andalusian patterns Góngora