Browsing by Subject "metaphor"
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Im Schatten des Gipfels: Bourgeois Society, Metaphor, and Temporality in Heine’s and Nietzsche’s Mountain Imagery
(2015)This thesis examines the poet Heinrich Heine's and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s critiques of the ideal through an analysis of how mountain imagery is employed in their work. It argues that their use of mountain ... -
Lo strano caso del Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde, alle radici della cultura di massa
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)In the twenty years between 1850 and 1870, there takes place within the cultural sphere the maturation of a conception of the world based on generalized trust in the virtues of science. From Darwin's theories of evolution, ...