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Journal articles on the topic "Botanical metaphors"

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Mason, Daniel, and Honor Hsin. "‘A more perfect arrangement of plants’: the botanical model in psychiatric nosology, 1676 to the present day." History of Psychiatry 29, no. 2 (2018): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154x18757341.

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Psychiatric classification remains a complex endeavour; since the Enlightenment, nosologists have made use of various models and metaphors to describe their systems. Here we present the most common model, botanical taxonomy, and trace its history from the nosologies of Sydenham, Sauvages and Linnaeus; to evolutionary models; to the later contributions of Hughlings-Jackson, Kraepelin and Jaspers. Over time, there has been a shift from explicit attempts to pattern disease classification on botanical systems, to a more metaphorical use. We find that changes in the understanding of plants and plant relationships parallel changes in the conceptualization of mental illness. Not only have scientific discoveries influenced the use of metaphor, but the language of metaphor has also both illuminated and constrained psychiatric nosology.
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Krstic, Predrag. "On a botanical analogy in modern theory of society." Filozofija i drustvo 19, no. 3 (2008): 109–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid0803109k.

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The author, first of all, undertakes to perceive and analyze the role that the metaphor of 'root' plays, as well as the discourse connected with it - 'rooted', 'root out' and so on - in order to examine the functioning of botanical metaphors in modern political theory. Ideological duality is here shown as, in equal measure but in different ways, fixed to the idea of the root of human existence or of the well ordered society - and an image of a tree in blossom, if it has grown out of this condition - in which it is a privileged possession, giving the right to 'radical' actions. The difference is found where one group advocates unconditional nurturing of the given root and the other one urgent necessity of replacing it with new one. As a conclusion, it is suggested that the abandoning of the floral metaphor could not only open up space for reasonable dispute about the questions that it was believed to answer, but also that this kind of retreat from the fascination with root could really be - radical.
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Smilowitz, Erika J. "Fruits of the soil: Botanical metaphors in Caribbean literature." World Literature Written in English 30, no. 1 (1990): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449859008589116.

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Sommer, Robert. "The Personality of Vegetables: Botanical Metaphors for Human Characteristics." Journal of Personality 56, no. 4 (1988): 665–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.1988.tb00471.x.

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Porter, Dahlia. "Specimen Poetics." Representations 139, no. 1 (2017): 60–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2017.139.1.60.

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This essay argues that the modern literary anthology—and specifically its aspiration to delimit both aesthetic merit and historical representativeness—emerged as a response to changes in eighteenth-century botanical collecting, description, and illustration. A dramatic upsurge in botanical metaphors for poetic collections around 1800 was triggered by shifts in the geographies, aims, and representational practices of botany in the previous century. Yoking Linnaean taxonomy and Buffonian vitalism to Hogarth’s line of beauty, late eighteenth-century botanical illustrations imbued plucked, pressed specimens with a new vitality. Erasmus Darwin’s Botanic Garden (1789, 1791) translated the aesthetic reanimations of visual art into a collection of poetic specimens, spurring compilations that promote a vitalist standard of literary value. By rejecting aesthetic reanimation as the figurative ground for poetic collecting, Charlotte Smith and Robert Southey forward an alternative historical model of literary merit, one grounded in the succession and continuity of representative literary types. These competing metrics for selection and valuation underwrite the anthology as we know it today.
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Sugishima, Takashi. "Double descent, alliance, and botanical metaphors among the Lionese of Central Flores." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 150, no. 1 (1994): 146–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003097.

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O'Brien-Kop, Karen. "Classical Discourses of Liberation: Shared Botanical Metaphors in Sarvāstivāda Buddhism and the Yoga of Patañjali." Religions of South Asia 11, no. 2-3 (2018): 123–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/rosa.37021.

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Brophy, Sarah. "Angels in Antigua: The Diasporic of Melancholy in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 117, no. 2 (2002): 265–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081202x61999.

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This essay endeavors to clarify the paradoxes of Jamaica Kincaid's grief in her AIDS memoir, My Brother (1997). By analyzing two related motifs—the memoir's pattern of botanical metaphors and the descriptions of her brother Devon's dying and of his corpse—the essay explores how Kincaid's melancholic commitment to Devon complicates her approach to biographical and autobiographical writing. Weighed down and consumed by her brother's affliction, Kincaid traces how Devon—or, rather, her memory of him—possesses independent powers of articulation, forcing her to confront her own implication, as a relatively privileged expatriate writer, in the political, social, and economic contexts that shape his suffering. A self-theorizing text that testifies to the changing demographics of the AIDS pandemic, My Brother also overlaps with and significantly redirects current theoretical understandings of mourning and melancholia, through its relocation of melancholic subjectivity at the intersection of postcolonial and racial anxieties.
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Floris, Ignazio, Michelina Pusceddu, and Alberto Satta. "The Sardinian Bitter Honey: From Ancient Healing Use to Recent Findings." Antioxidants 10, no. 4 (2021): 506. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antiox10040506.

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Sardinian bitter honey, obtained from the autumnal flowering of the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo L.), has an old fame and tradition in popular use, especially as a medicine. Its knowledge dates back over 2000 years, starting from the Greeks and Romans to the present day. There are many literary references from illustrious personalities of the past such as Cicero, Horace, Virgil, and Dioscorides, until recent times, associated with the peculiar anomaly of its taste, which lends itself to literary and poetic metaphors. The curiosity of its bitter taste is also what led to the first studies starting in the late 1800s, aimed to reveal its origin. Other studies on its botanical source and characteristics have been carried out over time, up to the most recent investigations, which have confirmed its potential for use in the medical field, thanks to its antioxidant, antiradical, and cancer-preventing properties. These benefits have been associated with its phenolic component and in particular with the prevailing phenolic acid (homogentisic acid). Later, other strawberry tree honeys from the Mediterranean area have also shown the same properties. However, Sardinian bitter honey maintains its geographical and historical identity, which is recognized by other Mediterranean cultures.
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Salvador González, José María. ""Sicut lilium inter spinas". Floral Metaphors in Late Medieval Marian Iconography from Patristic and Theological Sources." Eikon / Imago 3, no. 2 (2014): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/eiko.73394.

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This paper proposes an interpretation of the flowers and other plant motifs present in some late medieval images of four Marian themes: the Virgin Enthroned with Child, the Virgin of Humility, the Sacra Conversazione and the Coronation of the Virgin. By supplementing certain unjustified conventions that, without any argument, see these flowers as natural symbols of Mary’s love or virginity, our iconographic proposal is based on multiple evidence by prestigious Church Fathers and medieval theologians. By commenting some significant passages of the Old Testament, all of them praise the Mother of the Savior in terms of flowers and plants as metaphors for her holiness and virtue. Thus, on the basis of a solid patristic and theological tradition, this paper attempts to interpret these botanic elements as symbolic figures of purity, humility, charity, sublimity of virtue and absolute holiness of Mary and, as the essential core, her perpetual virginity and virginal divine motherhood.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Botanical metaphors"

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Grosser, Emmylou Joy. "The extended botanical metaphors of the Song of Songs." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2003.<br>Abstract and vita. Appendix contains Hebrew text of the Song of Songs. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-92).
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Buccheri, Alessandro. "Penser les hommes à travers les plantes : images végétales de l’humain en Grèce ancienne (VIIIe-Ve siècle av. notre ère)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0105.

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De plus en plus d’études s’accordent à reconnaître dans la métaphore un instrument de la pensée, plutôt qu’une figure de style. En particulier, les métaphores les plus communes et les plus répétées, celles qui font partie du langage quotidien, structurent l’appréhension du monde des membres des communautés linguistiques qui les utilisent. Bien que nous n’ayons pas accès au langage quotidien des anciens Grecs, les textes contiennent un corpus de métaphores récurrentes, extrêmement répandues, qui utilisent la terminologie botanique pour parler des êtres humains. Cette thèse vise à montrer en quoi ces métaphores végétales ont constitué une manière, culturellement déterminée, d’appréhender plusieurs facettes de la vie humaine : le corps et le fonctionnement de humeurs en son sein ; la forme visible de la personne, la manifestation des émotions et celle de la χάρις ; l’innéité ; les rapports de parenté et notamment celui de filiation ; l’identité citoyenne. Centré sur les textes poétiques composés en Grèce entre le VIIIe et le Ve siècle avant notre ère, ce travail convoque tour à tour les écrits médicaux et philosophiques, les représentations religieuses et les mythes de métamorphose, afin d’inscrire les métaphores botaniques étudiées dans des réseaux conceptuels faisant partie du savoir partagé<br>As anthropologists, philosophers and linguists have nowadays largely recognized, metaphors are not simply rhetorical embellishments, but a basic mechanism of human thought. Focusing on botanical metaphors occurring in Greek poetry composed between the 8th and the 5th centuries BCE, this dissertation aims to show how knowledge relative to the world of plants was used to understand, conceptualize and represent different aspects of human life. Botanical metaphors are pervasive in archaic and classical poetry. My work locates them against a wider background, comprising other kinds of texts (mainly, philosophy and medicine), myths, and, to a lesser degree, religious representations and practices. Therefore, botanical metaphors appear to be integral to a widespread network of cognitive schemata, sanctioned and transmitted by linguistic practice, and used by Greek speakers to construct their understanding of (some aspect of) human life. As this thesis demonstrates, plants offered convenient models to reason about the functioning of the body and its internal humors as well as the ways in which physical appearance may reveal moral or divine qualities. Botanical knowledge was also used to understand human passions, inborn qualities, kinship ties and civic identities. The overall aim of my dissertation is to offer an “emic” depiction of those domains: that is, a description grounded in Greek speakers’ own conceptual schemata
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Gannon, Eleanor. "Botanica the earthly divine : an exegesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art and Design, 2009 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/805.

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Drawing inspiration from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, this project seeks to incorporate the oxymetaphor, digital photography and photo manipulation into considerations of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. By considering the potential of an earthly site of transition (the cemetery) in relation to Dante's divine spaces, these images consider certain contradictions existing between the cemetery as a manifestation of waiting, permanence, and decay, and its associations with temporality and transition. The cemetery is therefore an oxymoron. It suggests both a beginning and an end; growth and decay; a place of closure and a pace of transition. Although Heaven, Hell and Purgatory have distinct characteristics in these images, there are commonalities between their layered treatments and iconography that unify them as a whole.
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YANG, GINA TSE-CHUN, та 楊澤君. "Dharmic Seeds in the Ground of Consciousness: Botanical Cognitive Metaphors of the Ālayavijñāna in the Mahāyānasaṃgraha". Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44423414168896097031.

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碩士<br>佛光大學<br>佛教學系<br>105<br>In Buddhist literature the application of metaphors and other affiliated forms of comparison are significant. The current study examines the core concept of the Yogācāra tradition, the ālayavijñāna, through the working of metaphoric models associated with it. Specifically, employing the method of Cognitive Metaphor Theory (CMT) within the textual framework of the first chapter of Asanga’s Mahāyānasaṃgraha. The metaphors under investigation in this study are predominantly “dead metaphors” within the Buddhist traditions. Hence, by examining their metaphoric structures and functions, they are essentially being revived to their original metaphoric state and conceptualization and to gain insight about their effect on the subject matter of the ālayavijñāna. CMT proposes that metaphors are cognitive in nature. They create meaning by bringing two concepts, a topic and vehicle, into contact with each other, causing their distinct meanings to interact, where relationships from the vehicle field are transferred to the topic domain to construct relationships in it. This mapping of vehicle to topic functions for individual terms through semantic fields, but also their relationships through grammatical syntactic analysis. Findings from the current thesis show that the major metaphoric model employed by the Yogācāra tradition for explicating the concept of the ālayavijñāna is a botanical model. The vehicle field of “seeds” (bīja), the growth of the plant life, the “granary”, “field” and “ground” are utalized as topic domain which express the relationship between the potentiality of dharmas and the ālayavijñāna. The cognitive aspect of metaphors found in the text sustains networks of meanings and characteristics of ālayavijñāna, as well as confines and delimits the framework in which one understands its function. The purposeful employment of botanical metaphors for the ālayavijñāna reveals implications unique to this system of thought. Through cognitive metaphor analysis, the current thesis proposes to gain an understanding into how ancient Buddhist practitioners and intellectuals understood, constructed and conveyed the dynamics of consciousness with the use of metaphors, as well as what cognitive implications and effects of these metaphors have on the understanding of a present day reader.
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Book chapters on the topic "Botanical metaphors"

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"Medicine, the Body, and the Botanical Metaphor in Erotica." In From Physico-Theology to Bio-Technology. Brill | Rodopi, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004418578_013.

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Anceschi, Barbara. "The Metaphor as a Scientific Device in the Botanical Description of the Mallow in Fragment 49 of Phainias of Eresus 1." In Phaenias of Eresus. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315126319-12.

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