Colloquia Maruliana ..., Vol. 10 , 2001.
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The Metaphor of Fire in Judith
Ante Stamać
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In Judith a perfect kinship between the micro and macrostructure can be observed. One of the most important microstructural features of the whole work is metaphor, or its principle of similitude. As in the whole of the work, in individual places of the whole, careful reading can establish the recurrence of lexical and phrasal elements that bear out the meaning of the whole. One of these recurrent elements is the metaphor of fire. At first, not often but very efficiently, it comesout in the metonymic registration of the space through which the conquering army (even today known by the idea of the burned land) is led by the general, Holofernes. Subsequently, the increasingly important semes of fire are transferred to him. He, as general, becomes increasingly inflamed, and then, as shortsighted soldier more and more intoxicated with his transient victories, and at the end inflamed with drunkenness and lust. At the peak of his fiery metonymy, he is met by the representative of the “city without water”, Bethulia. The principle of “cold water” wins out over the “burned land” principle. In this paper, using methods from lexical, semantic and structural semiotics, the development of the metaphors of fire, flame, heat, and burning and other words that cover the semantic field of combustion are followed up.
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Datum izdavanja:
22.4.2001.
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