Space Metaphors Describing War Experiences of the German-Speaking Minority of the Historical Hungary – Three Novels by Judit Kováts Cover Image

Raummetaphern in der Darstellung von Kriegserfahrungen deutschsprachiger Minderheiten des historischen Ungarn – über drei Romane von Judit Kováts
Space Metaphors Describing War Experiences of the German-Speaking Minority of the Historical Hungary – Three Novels by Judit Kováts

Author(s): Eszter Propszt
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Hungarian Literature, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Philology
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: metaphor; war; body; border;

Summary/Abstract: In the literary discourse telling the past of the German-speaking minority of the historical Hungary we find a tendency to conceptualize the minority's war experiences with the help of metaphors of the body and the border. The present article examines the metaphors ‘body’ and ‘border’ in selected novels as a concept of order, transformation, transition and threat.

  • Issue Year: XXXIII/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 117-127
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: German