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- Title
METAPHORS FOR METAMORPHOSIS: MARY DALY MEETS GERTRUD THE GREAT OF HELFTA.
- Authors
Johnson, Ella L.
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of metaphors for metamophosis to compare the literary works of Mary Daly, a feminist philosopher, and Gertrud the Great of Helfta, a spiritual author and Benedictine-Cistercian nun of thirteenth-century Saxony. It examines how the rhetorical strategy employed by Gertrud aligns with the metaphorical strategy used by Daly. It explores how linguistic tools used by medieval women religious writers affect the lives of their readers. According to Daly, metaphors play a significant role in conveying woman-identified thought.
- Subjects
METAPHOR; FIGURES of speech; RELIGIOUS literature; DALY, Mary, 1928-2010; WOMEN philosophers; WOMEN authors; READERS; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGIONS
- Publication
Magistra, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1079-7572
- Publication type
Article