Luzia Goldmann visiting scholar at the Metaphor Lab
From September to December 2015, Luzia Goldmann will be in Amsterdam as a visiting scholar at the Metaphor Lab. Here, she will be working on her PhD-project “Transfigurations of Metaphor”. With this project, Luzia aims to investigate the explanatory and interpretative potential that contemporary cognitive approaches to metaphor can offer to the research in literary studies. The project is designed as a twofold attempt that takes into account the historical background of the different metaphor theories that are rooted in their contemporary philosophical, linguistic and religious background as well as a systematic perspective on recurring elements and continuous developments of assumptions, arguments and perspectives on metaphor throughout the centuries. During her stay in the Metaphor Lab she aims to gain a better understanding of the scope of current metaphor theories outside the field of literary studies and in how far these different approaches might offer fruitful inspirations for her own field.
She will talk about her project during the Metaphor Lab research meeting (3 November).