Where humans and animals meet, folly can be sweet - Jonah's bodily experience of containment the major drive behind his conduct
Amongst other possibilities, the book of Jonah is about the main character's perception of justice. This study approaches the book from a bodily perspective by focussing on the notion that three-dimensional enclosure is the most noticeable experiential sense to all humans. The in-out bodily ori...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2007, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 320-332 |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | Amongst other possibilities, the book of Jonah is about the main character's perception of justice. This study approaches the book from a bodily perspective by focussing on the notion that three-dimensional enclosure is the most noticeable experiential sense to all humans. The in-out bodily orientation, which forms the root of the containment image schema, includes the feeling of protection, a feeling basic to Jonah's conduct throughout the book. By networking the bodily based metaphors for containment and by closely interrelating containment with animal life, the narrator skilfully succeeds in satirizing Jonah's understanding of justice. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC85881 |