2022: Special Issue 13: Remetaphorisierungen. The Holy Spirit in German literature of the Middle Ages
This monograph is the first to present and analyse the German Holy Spirit literature from the start of the tradition to the beginning of the 16th century in a cross-genre form (biblical epic narratives, treatise/sermons, songs/prayers) and with the help of recent metaphor theories. The (literary) discourse on and about the Holy Spirit is based on a manageable core of cognitive metaphors, which are reused, ›remetaphorised‹, in a variety of ways in concrete linguistic and rhetorical acts, whereby creative semantic and performative effects can be achieved that resonate with the lifeworld of the recipients. ›Remetaphorisierung‹ is also a central production-aesthetic process of pre-modern spiritual literature, which is closely linked to other text production processes (as ›remetaphorising retelling‹ in narrative texts, as ›remetaphorising allegorising‹ in appellative texts and as ›remetaphorising translation‹ of invocative texts).
