Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition

Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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According to the theoretical accounts which survive in the rhetorical handbooks of antiquity, allegory is extended metaphor, or an extended series of metaphors. This volume provides a critical discussion of ancient definitions of allegory and metaphor as merely ornamental 'tropes'. They examine metaphor and allegory from a variety of perspectives and compare theory with ancient literary practice.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-03-20
Mått138 x 222 x 23 mm
Vikt495 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor316
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199240050

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1. Introduction ; 2. Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style ; 3. THE HARLOT'S ART. METAPHOR AND LITERARY CRITICISM ; 4. Plato on metaphors and models ; 5. Literary metaphor and philosophical insight. The significance of Archilochus ; 6. The problem of metaphor. Chinese reflections ; 7. Metaphor and metonymy. Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others ; 8. FIGURES OF ALLEGORY FROM HOMER TO LATIN EPIC ; 9. Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus. The origin of Greek scholarship ; 10. The Stoics' two types of allegory ; 11. The rhetoric of the Homeric Problems ; 12. Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis