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Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory: A Comparative Exploration

Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory: A Comparative Exploration

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ISBN: 9789004524163
Published: 2024
Publisher: BRILL
Number of pages: 308
Language: English
Format: Hardback

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This edited volume provides a comparative exploration of corresponding concepts of the abyss in various languages and cultures. Fourteen chapters investigate ancient cultures such as Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Old Norse, but also more contemporary American, African and Asian languages, such as Hawaiian, Umbundu, Chinese and Khasi, as well as European languages, such as German, Estonian, English, French, Polish and Russian. The book combines ethnolinguistics with history of ideas, literature, folklore, religion and translation, based on the conviction that language and our linguistic concepts give evidence of and shape our ideas about the world and about ourselves.

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