Evincing the soul of a city
Background: This article outlines how poetry is able to configure the soul of a cityscape through the modes of personification and metaphors of public space. Purpose: It argues that these modes are so intertwined in reality that it is possible to gather a sense of a city’s soul through experiential,...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
[2020]
|
| In: |
Journal of beliefs and values
Year: 2020, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 433-445 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
City
/ Poetic language
/ Metaphor
/ Personification
/ Figuration (Sociology)
/ Soul
|
| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Soul music
B Poetry B City |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | Background: This article outlines how poetry is able to configure the soul of a cityscape through the modes of personification and metaphors of public space. Purpose: It argues that these modes are so intertwined in reality that it is possible to gather a sense of a city’s soul through experiential, rhythmical, temporal and transmigratory images of cityscape. Design: The article applies a typology of metaphors and personification as the basis for the analysis of the soul’s presence in a city Main argument and findings: The results of the study show that named and unnamed literal, figurative and personified terms help evince the transmigration of the city’s soul. Originality and value: An implication arising from this finding is that figurative language offers considerable transfers of meaning from one epistemic element to another to enable a nuanced understanding of cityscapes. There appears an unassailable case for the union of cities and poetry as part of our scholarly studies on spiritual literacy. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1469-9362 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2020.1746877 |