Conceptualising the erotic: metaphor in the Sumerian “Love Songs”
<p>This thesis examines the metaphorical language of the Old Babylonian Sumerian “Love Songs”, and its role in constructing eroticism in this corpus. Using approaches borrowed from cognitive linguistics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, I investigate how metaphor can be used as a tool for analys...
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2024
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