Which language for Literature? About metaphor, prototype, culture and literary language

The paper analyses the literary language according to the metaphorical linguistic theory, and develops the hypothesis that literature is the best metaphor of the human life written into a culture. The differences between ordinary language and literary language are explained from the point of view of the prototypical theory, applied to a cultural paradigm which models the human thought and by which the whole world’s imagination depends. Literary language is the de-sublimation of this paradigm reached through prototypical metaphors.