La Métaphore médiévale comme exercice spirituel

Overview & Synopsis

Metaphor in medieval times is often understood from the perspective of rhetoric or semantics. This collective work draws on philosophy, theology, mysticism and poetics to rethink the notion of metaphor by testing a new definition that calls on pragmatics. Using the "spiritual exercise" expression, the common thread of the entire work, the contributors analyze the use of metaphor in medieval texts as a pedagogical or therapeutic tool, or even as a weapon of conversion, aimed at changing, in oneself and in others, the way of living or seeing the world. The whole opens up a more general reflection on the articulation between readings of texts and practices of the self.