The Classical Tradition and the Americas: Volume 1 Part1: European Images of the Americas and the Classical Tradition

The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. The authors in this volume investigate a wide range of issues- the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the identification of source domains of metaphorical expressions, the relationship between metaphor and discourse, the priming of metaphors, and the historical development of metaphors. The studies deal with a variety of metaphorical and metonymic source and target domains, including the source domains SPACE, ANIMALS, BODY PARTS, ORGANIZATIONS and WAR, and the target domains VERBAL ACTIVITY, ECONOMY, EMOTIONS and POLITICS. In their studies, the authors present a variety of corpus-linguistic methods for the investigation of conceptual mappings, for example, corpora annotated for semantic categories, concordances of individual source-domain items and patterns, and concordances of target-domain items. In sum, the papers in this volume show how a wide range of corpus-linguistic methods can be used to investigate a variety of issues in cognitive linguistics; the combination of corpus methods with a cognitive-linguistic view of metaphor and metonymy yields new answers to old questions (and to new questions) about the relationship between language as a conceptual phenomenon and language as a textual phenomenon. America and the Classical Tradition: Preface and Introduction Volume I.1: I. Scholarly and Literary Images of the New World from the Time of Columbus to the Present 1. General Subjects Classical Models of World Geography and Their Transformation following the Discovery of America New World and “novos orbos”: Seneca in the Renaissance Debate over Ancient Knowledge of the Americas The Adjustment of Ptolemaic Atlases to Feature the New World Classical Ethnography and Its Influence on the European Perception of the Peoples of the New World The Euhemerist and the European Perception and Description of the American Indians Myths and Legends in the Old World and European Expansionism on the American Continent The Other World and the ‘Antipodes’. The Myth of Unknown Countries between Antiquity and the Renaissance The Amazon Myth and Latin America «El Dorado» and the Myth of the Golden Fleece Classical Antiquity, America, and the Myth of the Noble Savage Adveniat tandem Typhis qui detegat orbes. COLUMBUS in Neo-Latin Epic Poetry (15th–18th Centuries) The American Indians and the Ancients of Europe: The Idea of Comparison and the Construction of Historical Time in the 18th Century V. 1. European Images Of The Americas And The Classical Tradition (2 Pts.) Edited By Wolfgang Haase And Meyer Reinhold. Includes Bibliographical References. For Homer (VIIIth century B. C.) the earth was a plane circular surface entirely surrounded by the Ocean which flowed round it like a river.1