Metaphors We Love By: The Shift from Animal to Fruit Metaphors in Classical Arabic Ghazal

IF 2.2 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI:10.1080/10926488.2021.1997550
S. Chatti
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ABSTRACT Classical Arabic poetry is replete with animal and fruit metaphors commonly used for endearment purposes. The comparative analysis of love metaphors in classical ghazal shows, however, a shift in the poetics of love from the use of animal metaphors in Badi poetry to the occurrence of fruit imagery in Bedouin ghazal. Based on a selection of classical Arabic love poetry, the paper traces the journey of love and sexuality to illustrate the conceptual change from the prevalence of the gazelle metaphor in Bedouin ghazal of pre- and early Islam times to the emergence of fruit metaphors in Badi poetry of the Abbasid era. Evidenced in poetry, the metaphorical shit mirrors a change in the portrayal of women, who cease to be conceived as wild preys, fearing and fleeing male hunters to become exotic ripe fruits, waiting for the male to pick. Seemingly fortuitous, the shift in love imagery is reminiscent of sociocultural changes that help redefine the poetics of love in classical Arabic literature and inform gender dynamics in medieval Arabia.
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我们爱的隐喻:古典阿拉伯语Ghazal中从动物到水果隐喻的转变
古典阿拉伯诗歌中充满了动物和水果的隐喻,通常用于表达亲昵的目的。然而,古典加扎勒诗歌中爱情隐喻的比较分析表明,爱情诗学从巴迪诗中动物隐喻的使用到贝都因人加扎勒诗歌中水果意象的出现发生了转变。本文以精选的经典阿拉伯爱情诗歌为基础,追溯了爱情和性的历程,以说明从伊斯兰时代前和早期贝都因人加扎勒语中流行的瞪羚隐喻到阿巴斯王朝时期巴迪诗中出现的水果隐喻的观念变化。在诗歌中,大便的隐喻反映了女性形象的变化,她们不再被认为是野生猎物,害怕并逃离男性猎人,成为异国情调的成熟果实,等待男性采摘。看似偶然的是,爱情意象的转变让人想起了社会文化的变化,这些变化帮助重新定义了古典阿拉伯文学中的爱情诗学,并为中世纪阿拉伯的性别动态提供了信息。
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期刊介绍: Metaphor and Symbol: A Quarterly Journal is an innovative, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of metaphor and other figurative devices in language (e.g., metonymy, irony) and other expressive forms (e.g., gesture and bodily actions, artworks, music, multimodal media). The journal is interested in original, empirical, and theoretical research that incorporates psychological experimental studies, linguistic and corpus linguistic studies, cross-cultural/linguistic comparisons, computational modeling, philosophical analyzes, and literary/artistic interpretations. A common theme connecting published work in the journal is the examination of the interface of figurative language and expression with cognitive, bodily, and cultural experience; hence, the journal''s international editorial board is composed of scholars and experts in the fields of psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, literature, and media studies.
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